'Experts'. Send them to Room 101

[Mich the Tester]

Have you ead Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science yet?

Doing so will:
a) open your eyes;
b) answer your question;
c) result in the GP increasing your hypertension / beta-blocker prescription.

I've seen some of it on his site. He's a good egg in my books.

[RichardCranium]

Why are we always told by the ‘meejah’ that an unnamed ‘expert’ or some unnamed ‘experts’ say so and so? ‘Experts say women have implanted bombs in their tits to blow up aeroplanes’.

Have you ead Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science yet?

Doing so will:
a) open your eyes;
b) answer your question;
c) result in the GP increasing your hypertension / beta-blocker prescription.

[Mich the Tester]

Can I start with David Beckham please?

Of course, thread's ready and waiting.

[Doggy Styles]

Done. Feel free to nominate your least favourite celebriuty twunts.

Can I start with David Beckham please?

[Mich the Tester]

Please do. How about telling us about any celebrity daffodils that you have had personal experience of. Mine's Bill Oddie, I once stepped on his foot in a pub I was working in & he turned the air blue with the abuse he threw at me. Similarly Dickie Attenborough when I nicked his parking space at Shepperton Studios.

Done. Feel free to nominate your least favourite celebriuty twunts.

[wurzel]

I’m considering doing a Room 101 style rant about ‘celebrities’ seeing as they’re bloody irritating and pointless too.

Please do. How about telling us about any celebrity daffodils that you have had personal experience of. Mine's Bill Oddie, I once stepped on his foot in a pub I was working in & he turned the air blue with the abuse he threw at me. Similarly Dickie Attenborough when I nicked his parking space at Shepperton Studios.

[stingman123]

Usually the thinking behind this is
Shepherd= "Expert"

Lambs= the naive public

No such thing as an expert, it's just someone that gives the impression of knowing more that you do, a bit like DP

[The Wikir Man]

I disagree - putting them on a TV show with Paul Merton is a really bad idea. Giving them the oxygen of publicity and all that.

[cojak]

Oh. Sorry.

I'll let you get on with it then.

<clears chairs and tables to give mich a run-up>

[Mich the Tester]

Always ask the question "Why?"

I find it gathers some interesting answers..

I’m considering doing a Room 101 style rant about ‘celebrities’ seeing as they’re bloody irritating and pointless too.

[cojak]

Always ask the question "Why?"

I find it gathers some interesting answers..

[Mich the Tester]

Why are we always told by the ‘meejah’ that an unnamed ‘expert’ or some unnamed ‘experts’ say so and so? ‘Experts say women have implanted bombs in their tits to blow up aeroplanes’. ‘Experts say there’ll be lots of changes in the budget’ etc.

Who the **** are these ‘experts’? What makes them so bloody ‘expert’? Why are they rarely named, and why are we not told their credentials? Why are we not given the evidence to back up the claims of ‘experts’ so we can view it critically and judge the merits of their claims on empirical and experimental grounds?

Is it because every time the meejah say ‘experts say…’ they’re actually just bulltulipting, they’ve made up the story in the pub and want to get back to the pub to make up another story over a few more pints, so they can sell their crap ‘news’papers and pontificate about the world rather like cab drivers and teenagers who seem to know everything about everything?

I am a skeptic. I do not simply believe the opinion of ‘experts’, so if you want to convince me of some outlandish claim, I want evidence to back up a hypothesis, not some jumped up self appointed know-all telling me he knows better.

Hmmmppphh, glad I got that off my chest.