Kevin Duffy on trusting the experts

I’m an investment analyst. My job is to question the experts. In fact, what I’ve learned over a 35 year career is that the experts are almost always wrong when a) their ideas are simple, b) repeated over and over, and c) widely embraced by the crowd. This is how propaganda and the Big Lie work.  If you ever want to get to the truth, you’d better understand this.

~ Kevin Duffy, exchange on Quora, response to argument from authority, January 23, 2020