100% agree.

Unfortunately I see people who are experts in their field being asked about their opinion in other topics all the time and people assume they know what they are talking about.

For instance. I’m finishing up my PhD in cognitive neuroscience.

Specifically I’m an expert in perception.

Now maybe having Msc and PhD behind my name leads people to think I’m somehow informed and an expert on all sorts of topics. But it doesn’t.

Even within psychology I’m only an expert on topics near my area.

I don’t know much about mental health or therapy, as an example.

Yet people ask me for mental health advice all the time. I literally know almost nothing about that.

Stephen Hawking was a renowned physicist. Should we have listened to his opinion about the over use of antibiotics ? Or what ages should different vaccinations be given. ?

Also people often conflate education with intelligence.

It’s true they tend to be correlated. But having a PhD doesn’t mean the person has an exceptional level of intelligence.

Even so, intelligent people are prone to bias and blindspots. They aren’t immune from those things.