How Much Failure Is Too Much?
The Expert as Human Sacrifice
“Experts” as a class evoke a polarized response. Defenders of expertise will say that the anti-expert crowd promotes populist ignorance. Critics will say that experts are self-congratulating gatekeepers, corrupted by bias and self-dealing. “We gave the experts a chance, and they failed.” Alternatively, critics of expertise will say the concept is undemo…
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