{"id":5258,"date":"2010-12-22T22:54:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2010-12-22T22:54:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T20:54:55","slug":"on-the-impossibility-of-being-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/12\/on-the-impossibility-of-being-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"On the impossibility of being expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/339\/7735\">BMJ christmas edition<\/a> has again some nice papers &#8211; with a theoretical account on denialism and the next paper on the impossibility of being expert. This looks like the best joke there, sorry Tony, probably unintended.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSince Alvin Toffler coined the phrase \u201cinformation overload\u201d in 1970, the growth of scientific and medical information has been inexorable. There are now 25 400 journals in science, technology, and medicine, and their number is increasing by 3.5% a year; in 2009, they published 1.5 million articles. PubMed now cites more than 20 million papers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ christmas edition has again some nice papers &#8211; with a theoretical account on denialism and the next paper on the impossibility of being expert. This looks like the best joke there, sorry Tony, probably unintended. Since Alvin Toffler coined the phrase \u201cinformation overload\u201d in 1970, the growth of scientific and medical information has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/12\/on-the-impossibility-of-being-expert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the impossibility of being expert<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[2690],"class_list":["post-5258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}