The "Experts" Are Right... Until They're Not | Thoughts on Expertise and Smith v. Murray on JRE

Watch the JRE episode with Dave Smith and Douglas Murray here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg

In this video, using that episode as a springboard, I talk a little about the idea of expertise, what it means in the best cases, how it is misused in the worst cases, and how expertise differs from credentials.

I also cover a brief thought experiment about a body of experts evaluating a specific proposition, and how such a situation might go down...

Is Murray experiencing what it's like when one is on the losing side of an argument?

As for the episode of the JRE, Murray really got stuck in a weird loop in this discussion. He wants more experts to be interviewed, but he acknowledges both that non-experts can and should voice their opinions and conclusions, and that many so-called experts have shown themselves to be completely untrustworthy serial liars in the last few years especially.

So, he ends up spending about an hour and a half on this loop instead of coming to grips with the current conversation. After that, it actually was pretty interesting.

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Intro music by Dvir Silver, courtesy Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/sonican-38947841/