So-Called Experts
by bill - 2021-07-13 03:14:16 ( in culture, quotes) [php version] rebuild
[Updated: 2022-08-13 13:20:48]
Remember these when the "news" media holds someone up as an authority or expert in their attempt to make you go along with the program, whatever that program is:
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert." -- Laurence J. Peter
"Weinberg's Corollary: An expert is someone who avoids the small mistakes while sweeping on to the grand fallacy."
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)" -- [Quoted in A.L. Mackay, _The Harvest of a Quiet Eye_]
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know nearly everything about next to nothing." -- Norman Dann, Ph.D Soc. Sci.
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