The paradox of expertise
"Always listen to experts!". "Never listen to experts!" "Sometimes listen to experts!" Neither sounds right, does it? What is a rational stance to expertise?
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts”
Richard Feynman, What is Science? (1966)
“Listen to the experts”
Gretha Thunberg on CNN (05.15.20)
When considering the phrase “listen to the experts”, it is interesting to consider how it would be understood in different times and places. In prehistoric times the expert may have been a shaman. In North Ko…
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