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To: Lane3 who wrote (95264)	11/11/2008 10:47:45 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541904

Lots of people can be mistaken. It's isn't a corollary that "belief" in them was the problem. When intellectuals clash sometimes all of them are wrong, and one just goes with the best guess. That doesn't mean "belief" with a big "b" was involved, it just means we did our best. This article completely fails to take in to account all the times intellectuals are right (a lot), nor has anyone I have ever met ever made the argument that intellectuals cannot be mistaken. So anyone framing the argument as one against people who think "intellectuals are always right", has created a straw man. He may not have meant that, but the people who will take up this article will. There is a worship (in some quarters) of the ignorant that borders on the insane. I'd like to see those people put their belief in to practice and choose the worst educated doctors in the world, thus cleaning up the problem by Darwinian means, but they seem to hypocritical to do that.