{"id":1234398,"date":"2023-09-29T05:35:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=295595"},"modified":"2023-09-29T05:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:35:40","slug":"the-death-of-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/29\/the-death-of-expertise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#8221; &#8211;Upton Sinclair Whose Expertise Is Dead? In\u00a0The Death of Expertise, national security expert Tom Nichols warns that knowledge is under attack by an ill-informed public determined to replace it with popular ignorance. Though this is not  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/29\/the-death-of-expertise\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/29\/the-death-of-expertise\/\">The Death of Expertise<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/29\/the-death-of-expertise\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.&#8221; &#8211;Upton Sinclair Whose Expertise Is Dead? In\u00a0The Death of Expertise, national security expert Tom Nichols warns that knowledge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,250],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234399,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234398\/revisions\/1234399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}