Epistemology (It's easy for you to say that!)

These days the mere possession of a human consciousness, a sense of moral likelihood and an approximate idea of the parameters of the human condition - what is and what isn't feasible - do not equip one to actually 'know' anything. Before you know anything it has to be mediated through a panel of professional scientific arbiters who have corralled (and usually monetised) that particular area of reality. When they are good and ready they'll 'let you know.'