Of course results matter and yes, mistakes were made, to

Of course results matter and yes, mistakes were made, to
by sorin69 (2024-01-21 08:04:04)

In reply to: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. posted by Dutch

borrow the passive voice. Expert opinion is hardly infallible and I for one cut people like Fauci a lot of slack as they felt their way to solutions to an unprecedented crisis (well, unprecedented for a century anyway). This topic has been flogged to death on the board, so I don't want to reopen it. But it, the war on expertise, is surely a factor behind Trumpism, which is the subject of the thread. I guess the best spin to put on the hostility is when arguments descend to mere appeals to bureaucratic authority, as if it were a military chain of command. But do we have any alternative to informed trial and error and self-correction?

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Yes, we have alternatives. - Dutch 2024-01-21 23:01:37