Geoffery Thomas...again

[Worrals in the wilds]

I believe that people are getting increasingly sceptical about 'experts' on the telly, whether the issue is health, science, finance, industry or otherwise.

After years of shonky advertising campaigns using the 'experts recommend' chestnut, a few big and costly finance scandals (such as Storm) and the whole climate change debacle (and without getting into the theory itself, CC is now being used as an example of a science PR debacle in at least one scientific ethics university course that I know of), I think the word is becoming a major turn off.

Comments like 'Oh great, another 'expert.' What did they pay you this time?', are increasingly part of lunch room commentary, on whatever issue is being subjected to the 'expert' treatment at the time.