Experts

[poliphilo]

I'm wary of "experts". Some of them are owned by the universities, corporations and politicians who pay their wages. Some of them are self-appointed. Some of them have read a lot of old books and not that many new ones- or, indeed, vice versa. Some of them are opinionated and stubborn and set in their ways. Some of them are dogmatists and trying to sell you a line. All of them carry baggage.

Knowing a lot about a subject isn't the same as knowing the truth about it.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I know a HELL of a lot about the great plague and bubonic plague in general- doesn't make me an 'expert' in the way some of these people are claiming to be experts although it means I know more about viral disease and its psychosocial effects than some of these 'experts'!

[poliphilo]

The greater one's real expertise the more one becomes aware of how little one knows.