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It's a long but enlightening discussion of the kind of "expertism" (I made that word up) and fetishism of the quantitative that hampers CBA.
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Thanks to the media we have also learned that Mr. Brown of FEMA expertism lies with Arabian horses and is not even qualified for the position, which he receive through political cronyism.
Hell « BuzzMachine 2005
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The main problem I see with science is its apparent elitism and expertism.
TPN :: GDay World 2009
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Instead, he resorts to an ad hominem attack alleging my ignorance, a straw man thatched of "if you think …" when I have never said anything of the sort and a resort to credentialism and expertism.
WordPress.com News 2009
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Your armchair expertism is quickly becoming an attraction to this site.
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*you have used the cause of feminism as a launchpad for your expertism, for example this blog avocation of yours see: Air America appearance
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So, it’s okay if *he* says Creation Scientists don’t understand science like he does “expertism”, but it’s not okay for real experts to say the same thing.
Orson Scott Card, Intelligent Design advocate - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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If you actually understood science as we do, you’d realize that these guys are wrong and we’re right; but you don’t, so you have to trust us expertism.
Orson Scott Card, Intelligent Design advocate - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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