Again, I have to point to the Katrina incident. Would it be fair to say that the experts were responsible for nothing being done to prevent the levee failure?
There is plenty of blame to go around. The eventual occurrence of an earthquake of the magnitude that damaged the reactor in that area was just as certain as that a Katrina like hurricane would hit New Orleans. Yet the reactor was built there anyway. Building up the levy system in New Orleans to withstand such a flood would have taken a huge expense, and engineers take those things into account just as do politicians.
Unless you are able to point to the discussion and politics of the day in each case, you are not making your point. You are just handwaving.
not Mitt Romney.
Well, not Mitt Romney of course.
It makes no sense that people who know nothing about the respective subject should be making the decisions about it.
Many decisions are multi-discipline, with the "best" answer being highly subjective. A viable system is one where the experts inform the decision makers is often the best one. I certainly don't want the military making all of our use of force decisions.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard P. Feynman
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass