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What about when all the informed experts are wrong? Like consuming dietary cholesterol causing high blood cholesterol? Or trans fats being healthier than satu

• lopmotr 7y ago
  How can your group know something that informed experts don't? If you have special knowledge they don't, then they aren't informed. Your group might knowingly take a risk in guessing the experts are wrong, perhaps to test a novel idea, but that's not the same as refusing to recognize their opinion as valid, like in groupthink.
  • asdf21 7y ago
    "Experts" are especially prone to groupthink, this has been shown numerous times. People can be "informed" about something and still need to shut-up about it, when it's politically incorrect / represents a unpopular view, when it puts their income / reputation at risk, etc. Experts have more to lose, so they are especially vulnerable to this sort of pressure.
    • lopmotr 7y ago
      Of course experts can be wrong, but you won't know that they wrong or how in any particular instance, so you won't be justified in agreeing on something contrary and silencing dissenters who bring up the expert opinion. I'm just talking about obvious reasonable behavior here. For instance, experts probably agree that nuclear radiation causes cancer. It would not be sensible to believe that nuclear radiation doesn't cause cancer and then expose people to that radiation, believing it's harmless just because experts are at risk of being corrupted.