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Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us—and How to Know When Not to Trust Them

David H. Freedman

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Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - and How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David H. Freedman - Painfully relevant to the current pandemic. Explains why the experts aren't! The End of Average by Todd Rose - Pulls the curtain(s) aside from education, corporations and the non-science of "scientific management". Why Taylorism continues to dominate corporate and social life today. Explains many features of our lives (both civic and corporate) that were "baked into" society decades ago, are rarely examined (indeed rarely noticed) and are ripe for replacement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management The Miraculous Fever Tree by Fiammetta Rocco…

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