Correction to: Nature Medicine https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1015-0, published online 27 July 2020.

In the version of this article initially published, the second sentence of the eighth paragraph failed to include the attribution for that text. The correct attribution is as follows: “As described by Ballantyne and Dunning (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/which-experts-should-you-listen-to-during-the-pandemic/#:~:text=In%20philosophy%2C%20this%20phenomenon%20has,where%20they%20lack%20crucial%20competence), by indulging in ‘epistemic trespassing’, wherein well-intentioned scientists with real expertise in one field intrude into another....” The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.