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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by drcode on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:33PM (#13164215)
Part of me is kind of happy that the whole "era of experts" has come to an end- We've all just seen too many f-ups by experts to take such people as a whole too seriously (the downside of course is that often experts really do have better answers than laypeople)
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by tombo2008 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:15AM (#13165801)
Im not sure what you mean by the 'Era of Experts', much less it coming to an end. Can you explain this further?

Im all for making people come out of their ivory towers a bit more but to suggest that having high levels of knowledge in a given subject is somehow a negative seems an odd position to take. But maybe Im reading you wrong?

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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by endisukaj on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:23AM (#13166043)
We are living in the post-truth era. I may be reading the parent's comment wrong but I find it funny how it reminds me of some Brexit rhetoric where people were "tired of listening to experts on matters of economy".
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by krenoten on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:41AM (#13167568)
There's a great documentary about this by Adam Curtis called [HyperNormalisation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM), discussing how truth is seriously under fire right now.
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by gpvos on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @01:45AM (#13165033)
In what way has it come to an end? In this article, I see only experts deciding on whether it is a Leonardo or not.
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by ghggthgfrtg on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:54AM (#13167691)
World, meet Trump supporter.
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by drcode on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:10PM (#13171598)
nope.
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Re:Leonardo Da Vinci Lost Drawing Discovered by ghggthgfrtg on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:16PM (#13171655)
Yes, admit it. Don't lie to yourself.
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