(Ep 118: The Planetary Health Authority)
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The Importance of Expertise
In our infinite ignorance, we are all equal. So even experts are infinitely ignorant about infinitely many things. They do not have authority over knowledge, nor are they authorities in knowledge. It's the wrong standard. As popper also wrote in his piece titled knowledge without authority, i wish to replace the question of the sources of our knowledge by the entirely different question: how can we come to detect and eliminate error? That is what expertise is about. More than any quantity of knowledge. Does one understand the methodology used in that field of expertise to allow error to be detected and eliminated?"
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