This will just be a brief continuum from my previous post, with the still centering on experts as propagandists. I was in my local library the other day and came across a surprisingly refreshing book on the subject I had lightly expounded upon the other day. The book is called "Delusions in Science and Spirituality: The Fall of the Standard Model and the Rise of Knowledge from Unseen Worlds" and was penned by Susan B. Martinez, Ph.D. In the very beginning of her book, Martinez lays right into the dangers of the rigid grand orthodoxy plaguing the scientific and technical community. Martinez uses the term "fundamental farces", originally uttered by another scientist, to refer to this collective ignorance of the truth involving everything from "evolution, ice ages, global warming, and so on". One interesting thing that Martinez points out regarding the surge in ignorant "experts" is overspecialization. This term refers to the absurdly particul
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