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Ridiculous that you don't see you are trusting someone else virtually all the time.
I may look at what the FDA says,
(Trusting that it's accurate)
I might read the MEDLINE abstracts,
(Trusting that it's accurate)
I may ask friends,
(Trusting that they're accurate)
I may ask my family physician,
(Trusting that she/he is accurate)
I may then look at the costs, the benefits, the known side effects, I may look at online surveys, I may interview some health care professionals, I may read some magazine articles.
(Accurate, accurate, accurate....)
All of these are authorities of one kind or another.
Bingo!
I do not have as much scientific knowledge as some of them. What I do is synthesize all of the above and come up with a plan. I trust myself to be able to do this.
Here is where you're failing to see something. You have already placed your trust in those individuals and organizations to have given you the accurate information on which you now make your decision. Your decision-making process can only be as good as the information it's based upon.
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