World experts once again not even wrong.

The World Economic Forum publication of, theoretically, the most important issues a week or so ago has been nagging at me.  So ridiculous that it demands refutation but also so ridiculous that it seems surely a waste of time to have to refute it.  

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What a dung heap.  

Whether it is politicians or the WEF, I always like to compare their explicit or implicit priorities to those expressed by the American people.  Gallup has a routine Most Important Problem survey which allows for some calibration as to how wide is the gap between the concerns of the Mandarin Class and the concerns of the other 95% of the population.

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Misinformation and disinformation are not among the issues Americans are concerned about.  Which makes some sense.  Misinformation and disinformation seem mostly to be of concern to vested interests and authoritarians.  The traditional mainstream media want to brand the growing non-mainstream media as purveyors of misinformation and disinformation but that reverse branding isn't sticking.

I thought Nate Silver's response was pretty succinct and on point.

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Williams has a pretty good overall summary of the nonsense being peddled.  From Misinformation and disinformation are not the top global threats over the next two years by Dan Williams.  The subheading is The World Economic Forum's ranking of top global threats is either wrong or not even wrong.

I am always a fan of the appropriate use of Wolfgang Pauli’s famous criticism - "not even wrong."

Well worth a read to put the issue to bed.