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> The experts who are leading you may be wrong. (…) It's not that the experts are wrong per se. It's understanding and embacing that they* and their employers
by chiefalchemist 4y ago
> The experts who are leading you may be wrong. (…)
It's not that the experts are wrong per se. It's understanding and embacing that they* and their employers have plenty of conflicting interests. Money and ego being at the top of the list.
These people - even Bill Nye and NdT - are not above the rest of us. Full stop. They shit too. The fact that they are collectively so fond of promoting otherwise is a key tell / signal. They'd do a lot better in the trust dept if they found some humility.
The Scientific Method can be trusted. However, the humans that implement and execute it cannot. To believe otherwise is naive, and anti-history.
* and their reviewing peers.