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I will never not correct this quote: > “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts... from organisations with acronyms saying that they know
by Smaug123 5y ago
I will never not correct this quote:
> “I think the people in this country have had enough of experts... from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."
(My ellipsis here is to remove a bit where he got a few words in a nonsensical order, and reordered them, rather than to remove the context of the quote.)
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- redis_mlc 5y ago
- jahnu 5y agoI don't really feel this is correcting anything. There is nothing misleading about it since it's still the same point! Gove adding on some vague qualification at the end does not change the intention. Experts almost invariably fit that qualification so it's superfluous and handwavy. If he had mentioned some specifics then it would have a different intention and I and others would leave that extraneous rambling nonsense on the quote. Indeed it's an even more shameful quote with that bit.
- Smaug123 5y agoI think your point assumes that all experts are always wrong, which is a point on which we disagree. Many people call themselves experts and are often wrong - though I would call such people "pundits" rather than "experts" - and it's those people we've had enough of.