Skyring wrote:
On 7/28/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Generally speaking (and I am speaking from my personal experience here) whenever what I am calling a "learned expert" -- be it a graduate student in a subject or a PhD or a professional with years of time on the job -- makes contributions, they are well argued and highly referenced. As you say, these people have a lot of experience making these kinds of arguments and I think their method of discovering truth is the best one we have. So no, I don't want to tell the public that "they are wrong and that they should pay attention to their academic betters". I don't think it should even have to be said.
I've found that "learned experts" on WP sometimes use themselves as references to push their own POVs, and if you then ask them for sources, they provide impressive-looking material that doesn't actually address the issue.
NOR applies just as much to self-proclaimed experts as anyone else.
Of course it does, and of course they do. I don't feel like you're really responding to the argument I'm making here.
- Ryan