Poor Michael Gove , I remember thinking back in June when he was mauled by the UK media for saying the British people had had enough of experts.Gove’s comment was related to the various expert predictions on what would happen to Britain if citizens voted to leave the EU. Of course we now have the short-term answer to that but the longer-term picture is unclear. And at what stage can you actually say, "right, now we know"?My sympathy for Gove was not related to the EU issue. It was his scepticism about experts that resonated. I, too, may have had enough of experts (including "thoughtleaders").It may be because my working life has been in the economic/financial sector, which is awash with experts but where it seems nothing remotely like scientific laws prevails. Of course there’s the underlying maths, which is quite scientific, but once you add in humans it all goes awry.My blood chills when I read a sentence in some finance or economic report that begins with "experts say" or "resear...
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