Comments by "MrEkzotic" (@MrEkzotic) on "Hannity: Biden bows to the climate gods at the United Nations" video.

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  5.  @richard-vv4lb  Well, I'm not claiming that experts should be ignored. Of course, we rely on experts for their informed opinions on important issues. However, experience has shown me that it is never wise to accept expert opinion at face value. Their opinions should be viewed with a healthy skepticism and rigorously questioned. While my BS detector is sometimes wrong, it's probably right over 80% of the time. Funny you should mention a doctor. Here's a true story to illustrate my point. One of my best friends had a hip replaced due to an injury he sustained while racing Jet Skis. A few years later, he had developed swelling and pain in thaf hip and in both knees, and he said he just didn't feel well overall. The swelling was getting worse, so I told him he should probably go to the ER and he agreed. The doctor looked at his joints and said it was just inflammation and that his generally unwell feeling wasn't related and that he probably just had a cold, because colds were going around during that time. They did take a blood test. So they gave him a few days worth of opiates and a strong anti-inflammatory. When we got back from the ER, I starting thinking about why would he have pain and swelling in both knees and his hip, and why would he begin feeling sick just a couple of hours before the swelling and pain started. I checked his temperature and he had a mild fever. I just felt something was off. He didn't want to go back to the ER, but I kept nagging him to go. He finally relented. Upon returning to the ER, the doctor said it was just a bad bout of arthritis (which my friend did suffer from due to a rare muscle condition that was cured years earlier). I asked if there was anything off in the blood test results. He said he didn't run the test because there was no need to. I actually got into an argument with the doctor and he smugly asked what medical training I had. Well, the earlier blood test was disposed of, and I finally convinced him to take another one. An hour later, the results came back. They tell my friend he's being admitted and that he needs immediate surgery to remove infected tissues. After my friend was out of surgery, the doctor told him that he would have died that night without surgery because the infection would have reached his heart. Come to find out, he had some form of septic arthritis. Questioning an expert and not being intimidated by "superior knowledge" saved a life. Expert opinions might be grounded in a deep knowledge and mastery of a subject, but they are still opinions, and humans are fallible.
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