Trust in “experts” falls over past 4 years
Health care professions, including veterinary medicine, and engineers, are rated highly. After that, the ratings fell off a cliff.
Climate
Dueling Experts
Health-Healthcare
Nation of Idiots
Policy/Government
Public Health/Nutrition
Climate: We must ban all meat consumption
Or, we could just ignore the experts who are generally wrong about everything.
Climate oops: Canadian government study
Let’s pause there for a moment: 6.6 per cent after 80 years is a very small number. Canada has set out ambitious economic growth plans based on high levels of…
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Experts: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong
Source: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine Expert prediction accuracy is often worse than if random guesses were made. The reason they are bad is…
Skepticism: Why We Need to Think for Ourselves
Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Harvard University with several degrees in multiple disciplines and author of Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial, Intelligence…
Follow up: Authoritarianism is Necessary
When dueling celebrity epidemiologists met social media, a catastrophe occurred: a complete loss of trust in science itself.
Trust the Experts: “It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives”
Intellectual elitism, credentialism, and classism must end. Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it. Source: It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID…
Trust the Experts! “You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science”
Yet another Expert tells us how to think. We are to Trust the Experts. Thinking on our own is wrong, double-bad think.
Why it is a good idea to ignore expert predictions
Adjacent headlines on CNBC this morning
Finance: How did the grand cryptocurrency con happen? “Hero worship”
And while SBF’s FTX takes the cake for crypto’s biggest con in dollar terms, it’s noteworthy how many other conmen crypto has produced: Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpeles, QuadrigaX’s Gerald Cotton,…
Public health: Norway does not recommend new Covid boosters for healthy individuals under age 65
To add to the public health messaging confusion this is, of course, different than the CDC’s recommendation: The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) recommends a booster dose of coronavirus…
Follow up: We were wrong about the economy, say the “experts”
To be fair, the “experts” have been wrong about almost everything the past two and half years. It’s known as the “Suicide of Expertise”. Georgieva added that economists were more…
Demographics: Declining youth enrollment leads to more school closures
The declining youth population in the U.S. is already leading to tough decisions about closing elementary schools. In a few years, decisions will need to be made about middle schools…