Hate to interrupt, but you gotta admit he got you with that question! The conclusions he stated
regarding the incorrect conclusions, etc, of research doesn't require special qualifications. An
hour or two of 60 Minutes once in a while will demonstrate same.
I don't see how he "got" me. I'm smart enough and educated enough to
know I don't have the education and knowledge to reasonably dispute
published, peer-reviewed research in medical/scientific areas. I have
two college degrees; BAR has none.
Your two college degrees proved that you sat through enough lectures and
passed the exams to obtain your degrees. They do not confer upon you any
level of smartness.
I don't dispute that from time to time there have been problems with
research, but that doesn't mean I am going to accept the Luddite view of
the world presented by Fox News and the other non-believers in science.
"From time to time there have been problems with research?" Your problem
is just like many others who have a sense of academic entitlement. You
believe that because you have the "degrees" that others who have the
"degrees" are above reproach. Everyone has an agenda and you need to
find out what that agenda is and make sure that the agenda isn't
affecting the research. Or, that the agenda isn't clouding their
judgment in whatever they are doing.