Tuesday, March 21, 2017

AMMO GRRRLL has some advice for experts: "Shut up."
THE TREE OF EXPERTISE hasn’t been doing well lately.
“With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers."
When I was a child, experts had experience; now they have 'education'.
FOUR THOUSAND YEARS OF PROGRESS:


And we've gotten nowhere. From my email.