Expert Justifies Action
Why are the authorities upset? It’s puzzling to me that the authorities respond so negatively to an unlicensed 15 year old performing two surgeries. His work was supervised by an expert. In this case, the expert was his father a trained and certified surgeon. The state uses experts when it favors them, but discounts their utility when they are not favorable. But that might suggest something arbitrary about experts.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Yup, people use the term ‘expert’ arbitrarily in order to justify whatever they want to do.
June 21st, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Especially in matters pertaining to the warmth of the globe.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:07 am
I think you use this article arbitrarily to make an anti-establishment point. This Indian doctor was clearly out of bounds here, and I think most people could agree that he does not qualify as an “expert.”
And I don’t how you can relate global warming to some slightly crazy doctor trying to immortalize his name through his son. Global warming is not just the idea of one “expert,” it is the consensus held by a vast majority of scientists in the field. More CO2 in the atmosphere holds more heat. We are shooting CO2 into the air at an accelerating rate; according to a recent study China has overtaken the US as the top CO2 producer.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:03 am
If this surgeon was suprvising some intern he would most certainly be considered an expert and in fact it would be sanctioned by the state.
Regarding global warming, my bad. I didn’t know that science was in the bussiness of truth by consensus. Why do experiments when you can just vote?
Well I should say I didn’t know they would willing acknowledge it.