BTW: “Fallacy of appeal to credentialism.” IOW: Do you ask the doctor, a general

BTW: “Fallacy of appeal to credentialism.”

IOW: Do you ask the doctor, a general practitioner, about the experimental vaccine, or do you ask the scientists who constructed it, or do you ask the scientists who ran the field trials? Or do you ask one of the top three people in the field of virology (that’s all that ever exists in any field) for his opinion after reviewing all of the evidence?

One of the lessons we learn in economics is that knowledge is not commutable. In other words there are probably two or three people who specialize in some economic niche who will give you the correct answer to a query, where nearly all of the remaining economists will give you the wrong answer. This is why X economists or X scientists agree is a nonsense argument.

The difference is some economists know it. Some physicists know it. But not a lot of other people know it.

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