Experts are real, unfortunately knowledge in many fields is built with very poor standards of quality. The experts in those fields are vastly knowledgeable in falsehoods.
While the general public questions if we should be funding the next big project in physics, the real question we should be asking is if we should be funding almost anything else as long as they are not willing to apply the same levels of rigor.
While the general public questions if we should be funding the next big project in physics, the real question we should be asking is if we should be funding almost anything else as long as they are not willing to apply the same levels of rigor.