{"product_id":"the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation","title":"The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation","description":"Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts\nare not . . . well, expert?\n\n\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\n--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929\n\n\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\n--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind\n\n\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\n--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962\n\n\"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\n\n\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\n--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977\n\n\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\n--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial\n\nThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679778063\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0679778063.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Christopher Cerf|Victor S. Navasky\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43331787849789,"sku":"BVV.0679778063.G","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0679778063-0.jpg?v=1783563467","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}