{"id":39732,"date":"2020-05-06T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glg.tempsite.space\/news\/expertise-can-help-save-us-from-covid-19-if-we-use-it-right\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:43:34","slug":"expertise-can-help-save-us-from-covid-19-if-we-use-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/news\/expertise-can-help-save-us-from-covid-19-if-we-use-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Op Ed from GLG CEO Paul Todd: Expertise can help save us from Covid-19 \u2014 if we use it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Todd, CEO of GLG<\/p>\n<p>Not that long ago I read a book about <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-death-of-expertise-9780190469412?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the death of expertise<\/a>. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it feels like the book was written for a different world.<\/p>\n<p>Today, everyone is desperate for reliable information. We want to know how the virus spreads, what new treatments might be effective against it, how long until we have a vaccine, and how to get the economy going again. And we want answers from people who really know what they&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the anti-expertise sentiment that was brewing before Covid-19 struck is still with us. Having vast amounts of information available at our fingertips is empowering. But there&#8217;s a flip side: data and information can be manipulated to mislead or flat out deceive. Disregarding expertise is a mainstay of arguments on the fringe (that vaccinating kids is unsafe) and in the mainstream (that climate change doesn&#8217;t exist). Why should we listen to experts telling us things we don&#8217;t want to hear if we can find facts that refute them, no matter how sketchy they might be?<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/05\/06\/expertise-can-help-save-us-from-covid-19-if-we-use-it-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"message\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Todd, CEO of GLG Not that long ago I read a boo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,583],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-op-eds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glginsights.com\/zh-hans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}