{"product_id":"9780679778066","title":"Experts Speak","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts are not . . . well, expert?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.\"—Business Week, 1968\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.\"\u003cbr\u003e—President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage.\"\u003cbr\u003e—The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including, and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history, and science. In this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know.  But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013940035824,"sku":"9780679778066","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679778066_p0.jpg?v=1763608719","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679778066","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}