As the debate about experts and whether to trust them rolls on, one suggestion on a way out of this situation: specificity. The more that experts make clear the specific reasons for their recommendations and conclusions, the easier it will be to marshal public trust in them.

This sort of thing is good: https://mobile.twitter.com/halvorz/status/1249412164890263555

This sort of thing is good: https://mobile.twitter.com/trvrb/status/1249414291297464321

You’ll never get everyone on board and you will never convince all nitpickers, but for laymen honestly trying to think their way through this, “here’s how this works and why we should do (X)” is far easier to engage with than “because it’s complicated and I said so, peon.”

This also disaggregates the expertise of technical and specific knowledge unique to a body of learning from the more aristocratic Tom Nichols-style “my job as an Expert is to rule you with paternal benevolence- do not question me” posing which so discredits the rest.