More on rational deference

[chezlaw]

I still don't know if DS is claiming:

'It is rational to believe the most expert/intelligent are more likely to be right about B than those less expert/intelligent'
therefore
'it is rational to believe B'.

but it occurs to me that some of the views I disagree with may be caused by people acting as if this is true.

Take the claim that Russell was wrong in the logical argument against 'first cause'. It seems that people are willing to argue that he was wrong when its clear they don't understand logic well enough to see any flaw in his argument. How can this be?

Is it because those they believe most expert, believe Russell was wrong?

chez