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Ghostwritten Medical Articles Cast Doubt on Reliability of Drugs

Lennard Davis | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Premarin, Depression, Estrogen Replacement Therapies, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Ghostwriting, Drug Companies, Prozac, Ghostwriters, Wyeth, Experts, Medicine, Medical-Journals, Business News
Lennard Davis

We need to be extremely careful when we read that "experts have said" or that "experiments have shown" -- particularly when we are looking at difficult-to-treat affective disorders.

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What's Wrong with Experts?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Globalgiving, Expertise, Experts, Workplace Collaboration, Financial Experts, Collaboration, Sustainable Business Practices, Business News
Dennis Whittle

There are many areas where there is no clear right answer or no clear best practice. And it is precisely in these fields that we must be careful of a "tyranny of the experts."

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Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, The New Yorker, Politics, Afghanistan, Hope, Pakistan, Naomi Klein, Bear Stearns, Frenemy, Malcolm Gladwell, Iraq, Barack Obama, Experts, Poverty, World, Politics News
Sanjay Khanna

Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?

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Charlie Rose and His Iraq War Panel

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Kbr, Stephen Biddle, Charlie Rose, Iraq War, War Profiteering, Vali Nasr, Michael Gordon, Experts, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

What appalled me was that Rose allowed key problems regarding Americans' perceptions of the Iraq adventure to be omitted from the discussion altogether.

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