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Elevating ‘expertise’ is wrong and dangerous

By Eoin O’Malley (10 May 2011) How many times in making an argument do we rely on the eminence of a person holding a position to back up our own point of view? You’ll regularly read in the pages of the Irish Times that a ‘Nobel-prize winning economist says X’ and we are expected to…

May 10, 2011 in Government reform, Politics.

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