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It is not uncommon for western "experts" to know jack shit about what they're formally an expert in. They will know just enough to keep the machines running and do the paperwork. If they are experts in a field without that many machines or that much paperwork they can be completely amateurs and nobody will bat an eyelid.
It is not just geopolitically charged fields, like China experts, it is also much less contentious fields without the same pressure to reach politically charged conclusions. Western academia seems to have a profound disdain for learning beyond immediate economic utility. For instance, I recently learned that the leading researcher on Buddhism at a major Danish university doesn't speak Sanskrit, doesn't speak Chinese and doesn't speak Tibetan. They learned a little Japanese once but have long forgotten it. They are brought on mainstream media and treated as an expert.
Literally, I was reading one of the philosophy of ethics professors from Harvard talk about ethics in general and when they got into Marxism and Marxists (as a representative of a form of consequentialist ethics, which it isn't really) and they literally stated something that was specifically the opposite of dialectical materialist ethical theory, of which the majority comes from the Anti-Durhing by Engels, as the Marxist's view of ethics, without actually citing any individual Marxist, or even Marx himself, while all other views had specific nuanced views defined by individual thinkers of the theory. And this person is supposed to be a leading scholar of virtue ethics. Ayn Rand was literally taken more seriously as an academic source
One of the things that initially made me curious to learn actual information about Korea was how people can say whatever blatantly made up bullshit they want to about the country, and other people will just nods their heads and agree.
Me, definitely not a "vegan chef" who is neither vegan nor educated as a chef:
Do you know how to cook food that people want to eat? Do you know how to do it without products of animal origin? Congratulations, you are much more qualified at what you do than these experts.
The equivalent would be to declare that grass-fed beef is vegan and trying to cook a steak in a coffee maker.