{"id":728,"date":"2025-04-15T00:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T16:40:28","slug":"the-experts-are-right-until-theyre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Experts&#8221; Are Right\u2026 Until They&#8217;re Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Thoughts on Expertise<br>and<br>Smith v. Murray on JRE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2Fthoughts-on-expertise%3A4?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the JRE episode with Dave Smith and Douglas Murray here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also cover a brief thought experiment about a body of experts evaluating a specific proposition, and how such a situation might go down\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full notes <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/notes.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is Murray experiencing what it&#8217;s like when one is on the losing side of an argument?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/thoughts-on-expertise:4\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TNx-xF7lnUA\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/Nn7YldIUtZCE\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intro music by Dvir Silver, courtesy Pixabay:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/sonican-38947841\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/sonican-38947841\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts on ExpertiseandSmith 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82,2],"tags":[259,83,260,255,256,258,257,60,52],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-video-link","tag-argument-from-authority-fallacy","tag-argumentation","tag-authority-fallacy","tag-dave-smith","tag-douglas-murray","tag-expertise","tag-experts","tag-libertarian","tag-thought-experiment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}