@afewbugs @b_cavello "there are already systems in place to verify expertise" -- this is nominally true, but like with any systems, it's important to consider how competent those systems are, and who they serve. That is true for economic and political systems, but just as much for medical systems.

Perhaps the clearest illustration of this for me would be my recent(!) experience with a licensed psychiatrist in a large healthcare institution in NL, who was nominally 'specialized in ADHD' and point blank told me "well, autistic people don't have empathy", which has never been true and for at least a decade now has even been disputed in mainstream psychiatry here.

So I don't personally have much faith in those existing systems of verification, or their willingness to improve, and I don't think that such faith is required either, to recognize the risks of providing care and protect/validate against them appropriately.

I would much rather learn and understand what those systems are meant to protect from and how, and apply those same principles in a contextually appropriate way.