Experts are often wrong....
...., and the good ones among them are the first to admit it—because their own professional disciplines are based not on some ideal of perfect knowledge and competence but on a constant process of identifying errors and correcting them, which ultimately drives intellectual progress. Yet these days, members of the public search for expert errors and revel in finding them—not to improve understanding but rather to give themselves license to disregard all expert advice they don’t like.
Nichols, T. (2020, June 1). How America Lost Faith in Expertise. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-02-13/how-america-lost-faith-expertise
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