"The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science.
In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe."--BOOK JACKET.
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The experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1998, Villard Books
in English
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The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
September 9, 1990, Random House Value Publishing
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in English
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The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1984, Pantheon Books
in English
- 1st ed.
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The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
January 1984, Pantheon Books
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The Experts speak: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
1984, Pantheon Books, Pantheon
in English
- 1st ed.
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The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
Publish date unknown, Villard Books
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"A joint project of the Nation magazine and the Institute of Expertology."
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Bibliography: p. [311]-351.
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"In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed."
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