A short video highlighting an interesting argument recently made by Dave Smith.
Then I talk a bit about how incoherent many of the Iran war justifications I’ve heard are.
Not just false, but incoherent. Worse than GWB in Iraq?
Clip from POTP #1368 “The Truth About War”
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…