People systematically discount or fail to listen to expert advice

The claim asserts that people systematically discount or fail to listen to expert advice. The retrieved literature offers mixed findings: paper [5] shows bias against counter-partisan advice, and paper [6] documents real-world political sidelining of scientific expertise. Conversely, papers [1] and [8] show that judges and decision-makers often utilize and appropriately weight advice from experts. Because the evidence demonstrates that discounting occurs conditionally (based on framing, partisanship, or stakes) rather than universally as a blanket systematic failure, the balance of evidence is categorized as CONTESTED.