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My questions for this group are... what is the role of scientists with respect to issues outside
their area of expertise?
If an authority with every possible credential makes a physically-incorrect argument, it is a
physically-incorrect argument.
If a ten-year-old with no credentials whatsoever makes a physically-correct argument, it is a physically-correct argument.
What do we do about the tendency for the public to lump all scientists together.
What do we do
when journalists find one scientist at odds with 99 scientists and give journalistic equal weight
to the 1% view?
.... Even though my graduate degree was nuclear physics, is that the only
field in which I can offer expert testimony?