{"id":11360,"date":"2020-08-27T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:41:56","slug":"669-deference-to-expertise-professor-christopher-essex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/11360","title":{"rendered":"669 – Deference to expertise | Professor Christopher Essex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That warning conveyed by our guest Dr Christopher Essex, Professor, Dept of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario,<\/strong> came after observing that \u201cthey are now requiring masks on the basis of a decision from a public health official concerned with future outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Expanding on Richard Feynmann\u2019s observation that \u201cscience is a belief in the ignorance of experts,\u201d Dr Essex adds that the analytical process is alien to politics. Nevertheless, governing interests rely on data and mathematical model projections<\/strong> to validate a COVID-19 narrative justifying continual state control over freedom of association.<\/p>\n

Most alarming is the lack of any \u201climiting principle\u201d<\/strong> signalling an end to the lockdowns and controls. This is reflected in a similar lack of \u201climiting principles\u201d regarding the data and models that were used to project alarming and incorrect pandemic statistics.<\/p>\n

Dr Essex\u2019s unique analytical perspective on the whole COVID-19 phenomenon raises issues rarely considered. These include: the workings of networks and nodes<\/strong> in the spread and dissipation of coronavirus, the collectivist thinking<\/strong> that inhibits finding solutions, the herd mentality<\/strong> that creates a climate of fear out of \u201cstyle and fashion,\u201d the \u201cvirtuous corruption\u201d<\/strong> practiced for causes believed to be just, and a general lack of common sense in coping with the crisis.<\/p>\n

Reassuringly, it\u2019s not necessary to be an \u2018expert\u2019 in order to distinguish facts from fictions. As Dr Essex advises, simply applying common sense<\/strong> is far more reliable than \u201cexperts\u201d would have us believe. Everyone should stop being afraid, think independently, and direct their efforts towards better understanding the greater context of the COVID-19 pandemic. What better way to arrive at any valid conclusions that are Just Right!<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiving one person such power is an example of the anti-democratic deference to expertise in our society.\u201d That warning conveyed by our guest Dr Christopher Essex, Professor, Dept of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, came after observing that \u201cthey are now requiring masks on the basis of a decision from a public [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,62,59,596,84,28,6,3,4,43,598,608],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-culture-society","category-free-speech","category-ideas","category-journalism","category-latest","category-politics","category-reality","category-reason","category-science","category-society","category-technology-science-tech","issues-covid-19-lockdown","issues-culture","issues-expertise","issues-politics","issues-science-2","guests-christopher-essex","category-12-id","category-62-id","category-59-id","category-596-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","category-3-id","category-4-id","category-43-id","category-598-id","category-608-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11386,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}