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RE: Be Wary of "Experts"

in #expertise7 years ago (edited)

For me it's like being the lecturer and giving speeches about business although I didn't have any myself. People just consume and repeat without thinking. I don't know how it was around the world but years ago in Poland every "expert" was telling that eggs are unhealthy and they rising your cholesterol and you'll certainly will die because of heart disease. They were telling that you can eat only 1-2 eggs per mounth max. Everybody was spreading this "advice" and "worning". Then new research has proven that eggs are actually very beneficial so everybody started telling to eats eggs. Same was with butter and margarine...

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Don't worry, the "science cheerleaders" of today for most things will look as silly as this advertisement. The proclaims GMO safety for example when there are no actual epigenetic effects observed for at least 2 human generations. Sure, feed the people and it is an awesome technology, i would take it over hunger, but for fucks sake, don't rush to call it "safe".

Guess who else found this the hard way

And all that just for some of it

Ps. I don't think monay is something bad bat the greed and constant pursuit of it definitely

Then new research has proven that [...]

This exact phrase is one of the problems when used incorrectly. Research doesn't really prove, it suggests. Especially a single study. A single study especially when studying humans proves virtually nothing as the sample sizes are usually insufficient and methodologies are often questionable since you can't easily remove additional factors to demonstrate correlation or causation with certainty. Something can be viewed as proven only after it has been substantiated by piles (technical term) of studies with varying methodologies and so on. It surely doesn't happen overnight.

Generally speaking, real experts are cautious about making big claims with absolute certainty just list Bertrand Russel noticed.