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What I dislike about experts: dogmatism

Since I started Citizendium, which invites experts to be "village elders wandering the bazaar" of an otherwise egalitarian wiki, and well-known for criticizing Wikipedia's often-hostile stance toward experts, I am sometimes held up as an example of someone who places too much trust in experts. In fact, I have quite a bit less trust in experts than most people have.  When I learn that something that strikes me as, at least, capable of being re… Read More

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