You have set up a straw man and proceeded to vent. I didn't deny the existence of experts, but I rejected the sharp categorization where only experts are allowed to do research and only their opinions is considered valuable, even in science. Actually, the very term, expert, depends on having a society that has some integrity and many, if not all, scientific societies have become mired in corruption. I have lived it.

1. Any field, including science, is only as good as its community. When a community gets corrupted, usually due to money and sometimes power, rationalizations sets in and the potential good judgement of an 'expert' becomes suspect. For example, assuming you can call Technical CEOs experts, a Tech CEO may choose technologies that they're comfortable with, that allows them to stay in control to avoid ceding the leadership to someone who knows better and can accomplish the project better rather than to any reason based on 'research'. Not all do, but it happens. In such cases, you cannot trust the 'expert'.

2. Everyone should exercise their critical thinking and research abilities, even if their abilities start low. Otherwise, we will have a community of 'Technical Priests' with judgements based on authority. I stated that experts can do research better and that is because of their training. However, for a better society, everyone should train their abilities. Yes, discouraging people from doing research and exercising critical thinking is a path to a totalitarian society.

3. In my field, I've seen collusion among groups, especially in publishing. Publication is somewhat of a racket (see Computer generated nonsense papers get high publication rate -

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/feb/26/how-computer-generated-fake-papers-flooding-academia). Some publications are great, some good but that is not the majority of papers and the incentive for publishing is counter-productive and does not produce experts (except on how to get published).

People who reach positions of authority seem to need to justify their excessive authority by tantrums of the kind you exhibited. If you are absolutely sure of something, that is religion, not expertise. Do your research but allow others to do theirs. Building a community is more important than proving that you are right. A community of critical thinkers and researchers will naturally trust its 'experts'.