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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
You implied it when you said "So instead of listening to people sho have spent years of study in their fields". You didn't say "some people" or "the majority of people". You said "people" which suggests "all" people with years of experience in there fields.
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If I say, "I saw people who were wearing parkas today," it doesn't mean that all people I saw today were wearing parkas; it means that at least two were. Similarly in the sentence you're referencing, the dependent clause restricts the noun: it merely says that all the people you should be listening to have spent years of study in their fields. To read it that the subject of the sentence is "all people with years of experience" simply goes against any grammatical rule I've ever heard.
Perhaps you're confusing this with the way that a dependent clause can sometimes be used to refer to the whole of a subject even when the subject is referring to a limited quantity. If I say, "I saw beavers, who are known for their silky coats, while I was passing over the bridge." In that case, the dependent clause refers to 'all', but that's very different structurally than the sentence above.
Hopefully this clears it up for you. I normally don't harp on grammar in threads like this, but when you're misrepresenting someone else's arguments through poor grammar, I feel obligated to point it out.