> Thousands of Americans are alive because of Arthur A. Allen. And thousands of people are alive around the world because of the work he did here. No one knows who he is. No one pays any attention to him. They furloughed him as if he’s useless.

I’m a big fan of Michael Lewis, although I don’t agree with his politics. Here, I think Michael Lewis gets it completely wrong.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t trust the “experts”. I’m not against career experts. I certainly don’t agree with political games where politicians periodically shut down the government and create this public spectacle.

My problem is with the so called experts who are merely entertainers at best and truly political hacks who claim that they have science and data to back up their political leanings. In reality, we don’t know where their data came from, if it is correct, if it is misrepresented or deliberately fudged. But these people and their political backers have this arrogant quality of telling everyone else that they’re wrong, that even if they look outside and see the sky is blue, it’s actually orange because their favorite organization did a study and concluded their reality is the universal truth.

I don’t trust the experts because the so called experts are disconnected from reality on so many topics that impact me day to day, and they’re not open to a debate or civil discourse. If you disagree with then, they start shouting that we’re all stupid, that we’re racists, that we hate gay people, Jews, and Muslims.

Of course… so the way many people respond to this is simply dismissing these “experts” as political hacks and nothing more.