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Old 25-06-2019, 10:51   #3672
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Re: Brexit
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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
It takes time to learn things. Especially when it comes to food where you cannot have a proper control group. These people work on the best knowledge of the time and then adjust as they learn more. We know a lot more about nutrition than we did 100 years ago and we'll know more in another 100 years and the people who'll be responsible for that are the experts you dismiss.
Which of course, means that 'experts' can be wrong, which is all I'm saying. To put the amount of faith in experts that some people do ignores the fact that they have been proved wrong before many times simply because of a misunderstanding or no awareness of the full facts.

Economic forecasts are no different and yet despite the examples given of the number of occasions they have been proved wrong, if these forecasts 'prove' a person's point of view, then this becomes part of their mindset.

There is also the other elephant in the room. Scientists and economists actually disagree amongst themselves. For all these reasons, trying to find some Biblical truth from expert opinions is simply delusional. Listen to what they say, of course, but then apply the common sense test.

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Originally Posted by ianch99 View Post

But noone has provided a worked example of these benefits especially when offset against the negative aspects. You are just hiding behind a wall of noise: shout "scaremonger", "Project Frear", etc. when someone asks you to back up your claims.

It is not an unreasonable proposition is it? To ask for something, anything to backup the claims? Your approach to use "common sense" to predict what will happen is just bonkers.
Er, what about increased trade with the rest off the world, for a start?
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