[PEN-L:27363] Re: Re: Re: most experts agree

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 7:40 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:27336] Re: Re: most experts agree


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> >It's a lot like saying "most lawyers agree." The job of lawyers is to
> >disagree. The job of experts is to disagree. If someone says "most experts
> >agree" you can be sure that he or she hasn't consulted many experts.
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> All the exprets agree on that point. jks
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Experts make a fetish of disagreement. Ego driven hair splitting in order to be "top dog" undermines many
claims to expertise because most people find intellectual conflict driven by such hair splitting unhelpful in
addressing substantive issues that effect peoples lives.

Do not all lawyers agree that it's their job to make sure the guilty get punished and the innocent go free?
Don't all physicians agree that the goal of heart surgery is to save the patient? Don't these naive examples
show that much of the conflict experts generate is just so much hot air?

Ian