{"product_id":"the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-9780679778066","title":"The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition)","description":"Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts \u003cbr\u003eare not . . . well, expert? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.\"--Business Week, 1968 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\u003cbr\u003e--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Cerf is the co-editor of The Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook and The Eighties: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade, 1980-1989. He is a former contributing editor to the National Lampoon, and he co-edited the newspaper parody Not the New York Times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictor Navasky is the publisher and editorial director of The Nation. He is the author of the American Book Award winner Naming Names and Kennedy Justice.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Villard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327036166418,"sku":"9780679778066","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_acce22c1-39ae-43f8-b4a4-b2be58157b25.jpg?v=1727708679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-experts-speak-the-definitive-compendium-of-authoritative-misinformation-revised-edition-9780679778066","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}