The experts speak
Subtitle: the definitive compendium of authoritative misinformation
By: Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky.
Contributors: Navasky, Victor S.
Edition: 1st rev. ed.
Publisher: Villard Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Quotations, English.
Description: "The 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-397) and index.