When an over pompous "scientist" or "expert" comes on talking smugly, do you want to smack him?

Question

Should all scientific data be conveyed with a printed warning- "This has a 90% chance of being disproved very soon". Smug idiots.

Answer 1

Better throw away your computer, cell phone, car, and fridge then - they have a 90% chance of not working, right?  Because we used science to figure out how they work and how to make them?

I'm sensing a lot of jealousy here.  Someone not get into grad school?

Answer 2

Only if I know more that the scientist or expert about the topic at hand. Do you? About anything?

Answer 3

I don't mind people who ARE experts, just people who actually label themselves experts.  Expertise has to be delivered with a dose of humility.

Unfortunately, there is a solid economic advantage in singing your own praises.

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but yeah, things we were graded on in school, which are no longer true (do we get a retroactive GPA increase?)

* death of the dinosaurs (cause thereof)

* spots on the tongue where certain flavors are detected

* bernoulli effect explaining why planes fly

* birth of the moon

* big bang vs steady state

* 'the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body' (exclusively)

But I think the worst case was Aristotle, who could say things like "a bowling ball falls faster than a baseball" and people would just accept it for hundreds of years, even though the experiment to test it is fairly simple (once you have invented bowling and baseball).

My own current disgruntlement is with the 'cosmic inflationary period' of the early universe.  I'm sure that's totally wrong.