I don't think the general public would remove wings, remember that the two brothers who put them there in the first place were high school dropouts, who were good at actually making stuff, not decorated theoretical academics or scientists who couldn't change a tire if their lives depended on it.
but us ignorant masses might chose to retire planes a little earlier, and be less reticent to dismiss pilots with histories of mental illness...
I take your point though, but there is a good reason that, in the free world, juries are selected from the public and not expert lawyers, and that politicians are elected by people, not economic/political scientists.
Because 'the general public' are the most impartial group of people available, and an impartial average citizen beats a biased expert any day
Their track record on big scientific issues is not too shabby either..
as above, atheist experts preferred static/eternal models for the universe, the unqualified and mostly religious public correctly predicted a specific creation event.
expert physicists claimed the laws of classical physics to be 'immutable' as a complete explanation for the physical world.- making God redundant, While the 'ignorant religious masses' figured that there's probably deeper, more mysterious and unpredictable forces at work.
I.e. perhaps, in the free world, the population's intuitive understanding of how the world works isn't aided by banishing their majority view in the classroom, because there is a preference for an elite minority academic atheist one.
