This ought to be followed by pieces such as "Yes, sometimes experts will be caught in lies," "Yes, sometimes the experts are no longer trusted," and finally "A

This ought to be followed by pieces such as "Yes, sometimes experts will be caught in lies," "Yes, sometimes the experts are no longer trusted," and finally "A Crisis of Faith: Bafflingly, People No Longer Believe Experts." I say this as someone with a science degree: public distrust of science has been at least partially earned. Now, it has become easier than ever to catch out some mouthpiece in an eventual lie, and it doesn't matter how Noble that lie is, as the Noble Lie gives way to the Politically Expedient Lie (still for our own good), and from there to the Convenient Lie (which is for someone's good, if not necessarily ours).