And I am an expert at criticism ... Eric Falkenstein has again given us some gristle to chew on : " The sad fact is that experts are often more wrong on facts in their field than the average person. They are able to create a highly scientific rationale for their belief, and deflect criticism from 'conventional wisdom' because most people with mere common sense do not follow the academic protocol of the field that sets the standard for accepted expert opinion ." After what we have all been through recently; with economists and market analysts being made fools of by financial markets and with scientists and environmentalists looking sillier by the year when the planet openly defies their decrees to heat up; this is a very appealing observation. The items of evidence that Falkenstein offers for this proposition are illuminating ... . And I will store them up here, for my own future reference: Anthropologist , Elizabeth Thomas, acclaimed author on prehistoric cultures (...
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