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Originally Posted by Onkel Neal
I love how all us untutored experts in climate change, epidemiology, economics, public policy, and motor oil rely on the experts to form our unstaunched opinions. But the experts, well, there's a bit of ego and personality there too.
Climate heretic: Judith Curry turns on her colleagues
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/101....2010.577.html |
The most important thing about this article is that she engaged her critics. All too often, the experts are in an echo chamber and completely miss obvious (and not so obvious) flaws in their own studies. The ones with a fatal level of hubris are the ones who pooh-pooh the critics rather than accept that their critics might very well be experts in their own right - who have actually experienced a situation that is of concern in regards to the subject at hand.