There is good reason to pay more attention to scientific experts than to amateurs, so long as science is based on experiments. Only trained experts can do experiments with the care and precision that experiments demand.
This appears to me to be, at best, a non sequitur. The problem with cranks is not that they are careless in design or execution of experiments. Carter’s problem is that he doesn’t have a theory.
Presumably the stuff scientists learn by apprenticeship, per Teaching The Unteachable (EY noting that 155 out of 503 Nobel laureates were the students of Nobel laureates).
This appears to me to be, at best, a non sequitur. The problem with cranks is not that they are careless in design or execution of experiments. Carter’s problem is that he doesn’t have a theory.
Does anyone have any idea what Dyson meant?
Presumably the stuff scientists learn by apprenticeship, per Teaching The Unteachable (EY noting that 155 out of 503 Nobel laureates were the students of Nobel laureates).