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The danger of following the experts

23 September 2020

5:00 AM

23 September 2020

5:00 AM

People should be wary of politicians justifying their actions in terms of “following the experts.” Victorians are learning that lesson in the most brutal way possible.   

Everything the Victorian government has done has been rationalised as following “science and data and doctors (yes, that’s a direct quote). It’s clear many Victorians, at least initially, took that assertion on face value.

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