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The claim you're making is itself an example of dishonesty and anti-intellectualism. Let's take a look at what Gove actually said - the full quote, not the abridged version people like to throw around:

"I think the people in this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong"

Gove was clearly talking about a very specific subset of all possible 'experts' here - the ones from various (mostly governmental) acronymed organisations who have a long track record of making incorrect forecasts and yet still claim to be able to predict the future using their 'expertise'. The campaign was full of absurdly precise predictions like "leaving the EU will cost each household exactly £4300 a year".

Gove's position is not unreasonable or anti-intellectual. Post-vote, Paul Krugman started laying into economists and the economics profession as a whole, saying essentially that economists didn't deserve to be trusted because they so often made arguments that were just intellectual-sounding nonsense.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/the-macroeconomi...

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/more-on-the-shor...




>Gove was clearly talking about a very specific subset of all possible 'experts' here - the ones from various (mostly governmental) acronymed organisations

The question was about the following "experts" (it was Gove who defined them as experts not the interviewer):

>The leaders of the US, India, China, Australia, every single one of our allies, the Bank of England, the IFS, the IMF, the CBI, five former NATO secretary generals, the chief executive of the NHS and most of the leaders of the trade unions in Britain


So people are tired of incompetent experts? Sure!

And experts from organisations with acronyms? As oposed to those from organisations without acronyms?

This looks like he wants to hear opinions from his preferred kind of experts.


The Platonian ideal of an unbiased, expert economist who can see into the future is a fantasy. No such people exist.


Sure, so he was chosing his particular brand of experts, of which there seems to be few.




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