The Death of Expertise

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This article reminded me of some of our discussions on Global Warming, but expanded to all areas.

This subverts any real hope of a conversation, because it is simply exhausting — at least speaking from my perspective as the policy expert in most of these discussions — to have to start from the very beginning of every argument and establish the merest baseline of knowledge, and then constantly to have to negotiate the rules of logical argument.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the ... expertise/

[Felix]

Dara O'Brian on the topic:
http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=23510