When there is consilience of evidence from many fields there is little room for misinterpretation.
That is why science is peer reviewed
History is not forward looking. It does not make predictions.
I would think that a person hired to make observations would be trained well trained in the field they are working in.
Sounds like you are claiming that forensic anthropologists wasted loads of time and money for an education that does not give them expertise in their field.
People with no knowledge ofba field of expertise often
think there isnt much to what someone else does.
The sneering contempt for "flyovrr country" people
expressed by the coastal elites being an easy example.
Let a hotshot wall st lawyer attempt to run a ranch.
City girl me thought it was just having fun riding horses
and letting the cows do their stuff
I had the rare and wonderful experience of being " adopted"
by a Wyoming ranch family. They did their best to make this
pint size Asian into a cowgirl.
Because I showed real interest, my friends Dad - who normally isn't
much of a talker- spent hours on show and tell, how
things work, what they do,
My lord is it complicated! So many moving parts, so much
to do, so many variables.
I learned this for sure. You can do law school in three years.
To be a rancher is far far more work, you have to be very
smart and start learning from when you are a little child.
For me, or some snooty self styled elite city dude to look down
on a rancher is- well, it takes a string of adjectives
Unfortunately our creationist friends are doing the same thing
when they denigrate the ability and integrity of scientists.
It certainly does nothing to elevate themselves or the quality
of their arguments when they pretend to know better than any
scientist on earth.
Too bad there's no easy way to point them at a horse and
say, " OK, go be a cowboy ifn ya know so much`.