Just wanted to share this because it’s so well put.\u00a0 An email alert from Reason magazine included a link to a Facebook post by Nassim Taleb that perfectly describes The Anointed, even though he doesn’t use that specific label.<\/p>\n
Nassim Who?\u00a0 Yeah, I had to look him up.\u00a0 Here’s what Wikipedia says about him:<\/p>\n
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan<\/em> was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n And here’s part of his Facebook post:<\/p>\n What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.<\/span><\/p>\n With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30y of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, microeconomic papers wrong 40% of the time, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating only 1\/5th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers with a better track record than these policymaking goons.<\/span><\/p>\n Perfect. Now I have to go order at least one of his books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"