Experts are only as good as the body of knowledge they draw on. When that body of knowledge is wrong, an expert is simply someone who transmits to you the errors of others.https://twitter.com/hugoreasoning/status/1205900367290077192 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Hugo Mercier
Experts are only as good as the body of knowledge they draw on. When that body of knowledge is wrong, an expert is simply someone who transmits to you the errors of others.https://twitter.com/hugoreasoning/status/1205900367290077192 …
Dan McLaughlin added,
By the mid-19th century, empiricism - both in the trial-and-error sense and in the accumulation of scientific knowledge - had vastly improved many fields: transportation, communications, armaments. Medicine lagged terribly behind.
Worse, nearly every story of medical progress in the late 18th to late 19th centuries is basically "an enterprising doctor figured out the answer, but the medical establishment refused for decades on end to listen to him, hundreds of thousands of people died as a result."
And this is always the example I use when someone says "But the experts say that...". My response "Well, medical experts thought bleeding people was the cure for diseases too."
But isn’t that countered with thousands of other examples where medical experts were correct?
Sure. Expertise develops over time, but needs always to be tested against its ability to deliver results.
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