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How "Gibson's law" makes it harder to trust experts.


KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • A little learning is a dangerous thing, and there is no one more confident than someone who has read just a little bit about a topic.

  • Gibson’s law states, “For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.” In other words, you can find an expert who will say just about anything.

  • Not all disagreements are of equal weight. This is a key point that Pyrrho the Skeptic got wrong.

 
 

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