{"product_id":"the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-paperback","title":"The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor S. Navasky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Cerf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts \u003cbr\u003eare not . . . well, expert? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.\"--Business Week, 1968 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts \u003cbr\u003eare not . . . well, expert? \u003cbr\u003e\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929 \u003cbr\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind \u003cbr\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 \u003cbr\u003e\"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.\"--Business Week, 1968 \u003cbr\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 \u003cbr\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Cerf is the co-editor of The Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and The Eighties: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989. He is a former contributing editor to the National Lampoon, and he co-edited the newspaper parody Not the New York Times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictor Navasky is the publisher and editorial director of The Nation. He is the author of the American Book Award winner Naming Names and Kennedy Justice.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 8.96 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53055298437344,"sku":"9780679778066","price":25.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/uDy450Rg2L9780679778066.webp?v=1781318712","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}