When it comes to “experts,” we’ve seen a mixed bag in recent years, at least in terms of the ones who jump at the chance to appear on talking-head shows in order to opine on whatever the hot topic of the day/week happens to be.
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and even beyond that, we saw an explosion in appearances of all kinds of purported experts on TV, radio, and podcasts, from medical experts to legal experts to mental health experts to culture experts to “misinformation” experts and beyond.
As many will remember, however, many of these experts did themselves and their respective industries no favors by seeming to calculatingly tailor their expert opinions based on their political beliefs more so than hard data, the latter of which itself sometimes seemed to be massaged to fit a particular political narrative.
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