Hermetically sealed epistemic vacuums and the coercive state

From 2019 Was Another One Of Those Tough Years For The "Experts" by Francis Menton. Well, yes. Coercive statism in an hermetically sealed epistemic vacuum almost always leads to expert recommendations with disastrous outcomes.

But do supposed “experts” like scientists or economists in and out of the government really have a clue what they are doing? Or are they just ordinary humans who use the cover of credentials and position to see how much power they can seize unto themselves at everyone else’s expense? Let’s consider some examples that come up here at the end of 2019. I have three good ones for today.

There are some entertaining doozies.