Written very rapidly, and so probably needs to be tempered, and various caveats added. Still, perhaps of interest.
Mini-essay on what the intellectual elite know, ignorance, and the inventions driving human progress: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=165938533888688&id=100014176268390 …
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Done. Thanks.
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The point is people reading Nature etc often have hugely disproportionate power to effect change, & are thought leaders
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Nature is easily the most important & influential science journal. The median reader certainly has disproportionate power
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@DavidDeutschOxf 1. Ad Hoc assumption that Nature readers are "the elite", the same that warns on Brexit for instance. -
I certainly don't think they are. However, Nature's readers do exert vastly disproportionate influence
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Did you get the answers right? If so, where did you find those things out?
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7/8. I follow many people like Roser, Ridley, and others. They're not perfect, of course, but a useful correction.
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