Category Archives: Expertise

Noah Carl: In Defence of Non-Experts Establishing who should have their voice elevated is less straightforward than [Douglas] Murray and his defenders believe

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Luke Ford

I side entirely with Noah Carl here. I can’t think of a substantial disagreement with his points. Noah Carl writes: The debate between Dave Smith and Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan’s podcast has reignited a conversation on the right about … Continue reading →

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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Posted on February 18, 2025 by Luke Ford

Richard Rhodes writes in his 1995 book: * [Lavrentiy] Beria was vulnerable. He had been assigned a vital project which had been given the highest priority of the state, but he lacked the knowledge necessary to judge its progress. He … Continue reading →

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Expertise in Complex Organizations

Posted on December 25, 2023 by Luke Ford

Stephen Turner writes in the 2023 book, The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics: Science is sometimes thought to be a self – correcting system: replication and the fact that other scientists must rely on the previous and related … Continue reading →

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The Politics Of Expertise (2013)

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are excerpts from this book by Stephen Turner: * The client trusts the lawyer to exert himself on behalf of the client. However, the client not being a lawyer, is not in a position to effectively judge whether the … Continue reading →

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