> The rest of your comment has no relevance to the topic at hand. My comment, much like credibility of "expert" testimony in a trial, has to do with large scal

> The rest of your comment has no relevance to the topic at hand. My comment, much like credibility of "expert" testimony in a trial, has to do with large scale failures of so-called expert governance in California. I'm sure all of the embarrassing failures I mentioned had plenty of citations, just as I'm sure that the decrepit weirdly-fancy-for-a-third-world-banana-republic of San Francisco had reams of highly-remunerated research around their policy innovations on homelessness. Problems which in other far more boring cities were, if not solved problems, managed well due to common sense.