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You consider an author honestly assessing the scope and limitations of his own knowledge, and disclosing it, a negative? Really? I'd wager that a good chunk of
by vox_mollis 11y ago
You consider an author honestly assessing the scope and limitations of his own knowledge, and disclosing it, a negative? Really?
I'd wager that a good chunk of our problems today originates from policymaking on the basis of people who don't know, or don't admit, what they don't know.
- skadamat 11y agoSpot on!
- jessriedel 11y agoHuh? I'm not criticizing the inclusion of that sentence, I'm criticizing the claimed scope of the piece. It's great to know lots of stuff about renewable energy, but its impossible to have a sufficiently informed opinion on climate change to start making claims about how our industrial society should re-tool without knowing about nuclear. Proper intellectual modesty does not shield you from this. If the author wrote a long piece about how the best way to solve climate change was to quintuple the number of nuclear power plants and mentioned "I really don't know much about the solar industry", would you consider that an authoritative piece? Should we be reading it?