Ian Weinberg

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Lost in an expert fog

Lost in an expert fog

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This buzz is a composite of three of my previous articles (referenced at the end). I have been inspired to upload this buzz by the important articles and comments contributed by Milos Djukic , Sara Jacobovici and Sara Jacobovici .

Genuine authenticity is becoming extinct due to the rise of the modern day expert. There is no limit to the availability of impressive packaging and choreography with accompanying marketing which ultimately delivers the experts into our work and into our homes. So extensive and interwoven are the supporting documentation and testimonials that it is often nigh impossible to unravel the authentic from the fabrication.

Generally driven by self-interest, the experts are associated with the cathartic outpouring of endless wisdom. As a consequence, the writing about a great deal amounts to very little. We are being buried by an avalanche of self-interest driven information which is invariably aggravated by repetition – a developing veritable Tower of Babel! This makes the mining of useful information increasingly difficult. In the world of science it is the ‘publish or perish’ syndrome which further drives and aggravates this self-interest process.

Flowing from this has been the worrying trend noted in the peer-reviewed literature of increasing retractions due to doubtful supporting data. In the neuroscience literature alone there has been an eighty percent increase in retractions over the past five years! In the psychology literature, only forty percent of information communicated in major articles was reproducible.

Unfortunately we live in an age characterized by individual silo’s of interest which invariably represent the entire subjective world view of the individuals inhabiting those specific silo's. The mind state which emerges from this situation is one characterized by the need to defend one’s turf at all costs and taking a judgmental view of all other silo’s (which are generally deleted or distorted to fit into one's own subjective silo). The result is that ‘truths’ that are validated within a given silo lose their universal authenticity when viewed in the context of multiple and potentially overlapping silo’s of interest. Consequently therefore, the expert may not only lack intrinsic genuine authenticity, but is also very much limited by being silo-based.

Seeking out the genuine person imbibed with knowledge, understanding, experience, integrity and an awareness of the environment and its needs has become a challenge. We have arrived at a point where validated facts are questionable. It is at this time that we turn to those researchers with known integrity, committed to genuine value contribution and who have a track record of generating reproducible data or delivering applications which have genuinely performed to specification. But this is just the starting point. From here we need value contributors who venture beyond their interest silo’s and integrate the data from other interest areas (silo's) so as to create a more authentic and comprehensive contribution.

And so at this juncture we are required to transcend the fog of self-interest and embrace a space of genuine curiosity and awe with a view to contributing value to ourselves and to our environment and all that dwell therein.


https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/a-cathartic-outpouring-of-wisdom

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/drowning-in-snake-oil

https://www.bebee.com/producer/@ian-weinberg/integrating-the-silo-s-of-self-interest


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Ian Weinberg

6 years ago #12

#17
😂

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #11

#16
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Paul Walters

6 years ago #10

Ian Weinberg All rather foggy here!!! Me, I simply scribble tongue in cheek diatribes. Just think, no fact checking needed !! Thanks Ian my fog lights now on although there hasnt been fog in Bali for ...well ever!

Ali Anani

6 years ago #9

#8
Buaa to you dear CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit. Love the word

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #8

#10
As Gerald Hecht has said so well in his buzz "On: Some Stuff" [ "in science (when it's done correctly), TRUTH is this "thingie" that's LEFT" ] QUOTE FROM GERALD HECHT Social glue does require a mastery of the trivial, otherwise we would never speak in that manner called "small talk". When social niceties become more than the social glue and become the culture we are stuck to, then that peeling away process is going to be painful - the same as hair removal with wax strips. In a BEE culture we don't really address the WAX. We will talk much about honey without addressing the wax. That is why we end up in comedy clubs to listen to people who laugh at the wax, or even smile when we watch Karate Kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynryUjGFt8

Ian Weinberg

6 years ago #7

#9
Yes CityVP \ud83d\udc1d Manjit , unfortunately it's come to that - to be extremely discerning so as to not throw the baby out with the bath water!

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #6

Dear Ian Weinberg you just nailed it - Milos has touched on the reproducible in science, but what you are addressing covers marketing also. It is a double edged sword, scientists needs to speak to the public in a way the significance of their work is appreciated, but that opens the door for charlatans and people who use the same mechanisms of communication to portray themselves as experts and stay ahead of this game. This is why the word BS is used so often and the jokes about consultants become glorified in media with shows like "House of Lies". (never mind House of Cards). Excellent buzz !!! At the end of the day, it comes down to cavaet emptor and it comes down to how we individually separate the wheat from the chaff. The chaff will continue to make money, there is no stopping that because mythology is the chief currency of society, at the end of the day discernment and not marketing is the key to moving forward. Education is set up to serve the conveyor belt of supply and demand, whereas it is the few that seek education and science to become what it should be. When the pressure to shortchange education or science arrives, unfortunately few people take the road less traveled but there are many that agree with the ethics of it - but the one's that do are definitely worth following - in their footsteps and not in our followership.

CityVP Manjit

6 years ago #5

#2
Dear Ali Anani, Brand Ambassador @beBeeThe word BOO-YA is an expression or explanation of joy, excitement and triumph. So even if the word was buzz, I say lets create a beBee equivalent of BOO-YA and call it buaa !!! Sometimes the things we did not mean to say open the door to all the other things we never thought to say. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boo-ya That is culture happens - buaa !!!

Pascal Derrien

6 years ago #4

I always have my fog lights ready just in case :-)

Sara Jacobovici

6 years ago #3

Informative, insightful and well written Ian Weinberg. I am honoured to be mentioned in this buzz. Thank you.

Ali Anani

6 years ago #2

I meant buzz and not buaa in my comment. Sorry for the typo

Ali Anani

6 years ago #1

Ian Weinberg- I am honored to be mentioned in this AUTHENTIC buaa. I find it honest and pictures our society. This is highly reflected in the quotes I selected from your buzz. Unfortunately we live in an age characterized by individual silo’s of interest which invariably represent the entire subjective world view of the individuals inhabiting those specific silo's. The result is that ‘truths’ that are validated within a given silo lose their universal authenticity when viewed in the context of multiple and potentially overlapping silo’s of interest. We have arrived at a point where validated facts are questionable. The most proclaimed Arab poet, Al-Mutannabi (selfproclaimed prophet), said centuries ago that we are moving towards societies in which the most noble people are those who not do exceedingly well, but those who refrain from picking the wrong manners. How can a self-centered person be a noble one? Sad, but you told the truth.

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