Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
by zzzcpan on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:56PM
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It's not a real problem though. We can give everyone a shot at everything simply because very few will take it and even fewer will be able to reach the point where their claims have to be evaluated by others or someone in a position of decision making. Having authorities on subjects can't do anything good, it only allows to silence and ignore uncomfortable questions and opinions.
Of course that does leave is with the authority of guilds in each area. They get to define who is a member and who is not, and where the research money goes within each area.
The major problems I find with this approach is that we end up letting the experts decide things that they are not experts in, and we have to trust their own policing.
They cannot within their own guild decide what tradeoffs society should make, it necessarily requires more than one expert opinion, and there's no way to say the concerns of one group must outweigh that of another. It's always a political decision by someone who isn't an expert in every field.
As for their own policing, there are plenty of examples of the experts being wrong. How a non-expert is gonna fix that I don't know, but not having external oversight is a due diligence failure.