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No, you're not entitled to your opinion (2012) (theconversation.edu.au)
2 points by westicle on Feb 17, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


A quote from a philosophy professor: "And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse."

A reliance on experts -- clearly not science, which rejects experts and expertise in favor of evidence. Even philosophers should know this.

"Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion." — Richard Feynman




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