{"product_id":"the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-expanded-and-updated","title":"The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition) (Expanded and Updated)","description":"Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts are not...well, expert? \"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\" -- Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929\u003cp\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\" -- Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding \"Gone With the Wind\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\" -- Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With over 50 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\" -- President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\" -- \"The Wall Street Journal,\" in a 1995 editorial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Villard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981642039527,"sku":"9780679778066","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_22ba3d7e-aa9d-4ddf-82a1-a34cbeb6f344.jpg?v=1776216585","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-expanded-and-updated","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}