I'm getting further into Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and finding something mundane but quietly horrifying about the story that inspired Jurassic Park.
Professor Challenger is a very well pedigreed but no one believes him while Sherlock Holmes has no credentials and everyone believes him.
The main mechanism is that Professor Challenger's discoveries make a simple world more complicated and Sherlock makes a complicated world simpler.
The most powerful statement is about how much any audience would resist having to do more intellectual labor by reforming their world view.
Credentials exist only as a fruitless attempt to appeal to people who would dismiss all evidence that they had to reconsider their prejudices anyway.

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Why are you still alive 😕

because I'm not talking to you