The Experts Are Out of Ideas: A Debate

Are today's technocrats careful, knowledgeable and rigorous - or anything but?

Samuel Kimbriel

and

Tom Barson

Jun 21, 2023

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Welcome to another Wisdom of Crowds "Debate,” a recurring feature where we work through tensions and explore why we believe what we believe. In this debate, we’re doing something really special we have never done before. We’ve invited one of our earliest and sharpest readers,

Tom Barson

, to take on Wisdom of Crowds Editor-at-Large and political philosopher
Samuel Kimbriel
. Tom …

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A guest post by

Tom Barson

Tom Barson grew up in Oberlin, Ohio and attended college and graduate school in New York City and retired in 2019 as an IT services director for global supply chain projects. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan.