{"product_id":"the-experts-speak","title":"The Experts Speak - The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition)","description":"Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts \u003cbr\u003eare not . . . well, expert?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With over fifty 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972807790880,"sku":"9780679778066","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/the-experts-speak","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}