army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 April 2014 06:30:41AM 0 points [-]

Instead, you get a huge, enormous pile of famous cases where The Experts Screwed Up.

But there also are many many cases where the experts didn't screw up, which are less famous for obvious reasons. Believing doctors are always wrong sounds kind of extreme to me; sometimes they are right. (Otherwise, how comes life expectancy has increased so much in the past century?)