{"id":1655,"date":"2010-03-14T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/god-save-us-from-experts\/"},"modified":"2010-03-14T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T12:23:18","slug":"god-save-us-from-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/god-save-us-from-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"God save us from experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>The problem comes when reality proves the professionals to be as clueless as the rest of us &#8212; as it frequently does. Patients&#8217; X-rays go unread. Swabs are left inside mothers after childbirth. Vulnerable children like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/topics\/Tracey+Fay\" title=\"Tracey Fay\">Tracey Fay<\/a> are abandoned to a lonely death. Criminals walk free because warrants are incorrectly worded. Property prices drop through the floor in defiance of the predictions of the financial gurus. Last week, the report into the collapse of the viaduct at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/topics\/Malahide\" title=\"Malahide\">Malahide<\/a> revealed engineers had been maintaining the structure for years without realising the supports rested on rocks, rather than being driven into the sea bed.<\/p>\n<p>The problem comes when reality proves  professionals to be as clueless as the rest of us <\/p>\n<p>God save us from experts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/analysis\/trust-me-youll-be-grand-with-a-killer-next-door-2098789.html\">independent.ie<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I won a court case, I had more expert witnesses than the other side. The problem there is that courts give credence to expert-ism. &#8220;In My Opinion&#8221; said the expert! and the ground open up and believed it, because it was expert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.briangreene.com\/god-save-us-from-experts\">web lab<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem comes when reality proves the professionals to be as clueless as the rest of us &#8212; as it frequently does. Patients&#8217; X-rays go unread. Swabs are left inside mothers after childbirth. Vulnerable children like Tracey Fay are abandoned to a lonely death. Criminals walk free because warrants are incorrectly worded. Property prices drop&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2010\/god-save-us-from-experts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God save us from experts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}