Bonus Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on April 4, 2020
… is from the third entry of Roger Koppl’s important EconLog series titled “Pandemics and the Problem of Expert Failure” (link original):
But questioning is precisely what we need in crises. In his essay, “What is Science?” Richard Feynman remarked “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” When we give experts power, including the power to decide who the experts are, we choke off science. The premise of a rigid hierarchy of knowers is mistaken. The knowledge we need in normal times and crisis times alike is distributed. It’s out there in thee and me and in all our habits practices and experience. It is not a set of instructions and doctrines coming from on high. It arises of its own from our many decentralized interactions.
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