

An edition of The Experts speak (1984)
the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
By Christopher Cerf,Victor S. Navasky,Victor Navasky
Publish Date
1984
Publisher
Pantheon Books,Pantheon
Language
eng
Pages
391
Description:
"The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe."--BOOK JACKET.