I agree on your points about self-styled experts and about discernment.  But I consider that lots of the self-styled experts are the ones giving me my practice items for discernment.  Like remember in the beginning of Q when that Potter guy was putting up videos and David Seaman who later created Fulcrum.  Those guys blew their credibility in pretty short order.  But they had a role to play in me learning to spot those types.  I think I'm mostly figuring out that it's the ones with big egos that quickly lose credibility.  Their big egos trip them up.  One I can't quite get my mind around is Robert David Steele.  Big ego on one hand but a dork on the other in some ways.  Makes me wonder if I'm mistaking deep-seated insecurity for a big ego.  I can't watch him because he annoys me, but I find him interesting nonetheless.