I think you gave an explanation of why Fact Men might sometimes show useful things that the experts have missed. However, the question you raised in your opening was different:
Why do so many people believe the Facts Man and subscribe to his substack, while the youtube channel of the Regular Crackpot channel only receives laughs and sneers?
I think here the answer is that cosmology/QCD doesn’t have political implications, whereas epidemiology and differential psychology often does.
I think you gave an explanation of why Fact Men might sometimes show useful things that the experts have missed. However, the question you raised in your opening was different:
I think here the answer is that cosmology/QCD doesn’t have political implications, whereas epidemiology and differential psychology often does.