Authority: Experts and Consensus as Barriers to Invention, Discovery, and Innovation
摘要
This section on authority, experts, and consensuses that function as barriers to invention, discovery, and innovation discusses Hans Gaffron’s personal experience on the theme of resistance to knowledge. We hear what we want to hear and we see what we want to see. This role of authority by a famous leader of a research department shows the power of “the authority of an expert,” even when the expert is wrong.