{"lc_classifications": ["PN6083 .C37 1998"], "title": "The Experts speak", "covers": [421832, 4232836, 7944388, 13232879], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "first_publish_date": "1984", "key": "/works/OL1845121W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL220935A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1394393A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2623057A"}}], "dewey_number": ["082"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["English Quotations", "Quotations, English", "Long Now Manual for Civilization", "Misvattingen", "Citaten", "Engels", "Quotations", "Citations anglaises", "Political sociology", "Mass communications"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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.\n\nIn 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."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:27:22.498405"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-10T21:14:20.952566"}}