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Its not about belief in the ignorance of experts, but rather the principle that truth does not derive from authority. I don't believe experts are ignorant, I'll even go so far as to sometimes accept their claims as authoritative, but on demand they must be able to demonstrate where that authority derives from and it damn well better not the word of yet some other authority.


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