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| -Great Cultural Revolution |
| Experts Gone Wild |
| 2024-09-17 |
| [ZeroHedge] 'Academics, think tankers, pundits, and policymakers no longer can hide the fact that they often either have no clue what they are doing or are all too willing to oversell their case—and will purposefully obfuscate or outright lie from time to time to get their way.' |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 I was once introduced at a client site as an "expert". The introducer then went on to define an expert as "X: an unknown quantity and spurt: a drip under pressure". The meeting went downhill from there.... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2024-09-17 11:26 |
| #2 “Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-17 11:06 |