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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@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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How so?
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Far more likely than random person to write influential books, op-eds, help decide policy, etcetera.
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