What Makes You An Expert?

What’s With All The Experts?

Scroll through your social media feed, and you find all kinds of so-called experts.

They can help you lose those last extra pounds, make you better in the bedroom, or explain the latest congressional move in Washington, D.C.

I don’t buy it anymore.

What makes these “experts” experts?

How do you qualify to be an expert?

Let’s take the situation in Iraq.

You’ve got expert “A” and expert “B,” and both claim to know exactly what we should or should not be doing over there.

Who do you believe?

We live in a society that lives off propaganda.

The “experts” come on television or YouTube with half-truths to turn you to their point of view.

I was listening to a podcast about vaccines the other day, the lies told by big pharmaceutical companies use experts to convince us that medicine is the answer to our health problems, rather than changing our lifestyle.

I produce a series called Truth About Timber.

Over the past three years, I’ve heard “experts” talk about how we need to be sustainable by locking up the public forests.

These same hypocrites talk about the carbon footprint and yet block the sale of local timber and have no problem importing wood from overseas.

They have made themselves experts, using words, but have no real experience or knowledge of proper forest management to back up their claims.

The real experts are often overlooked. In the case of timber management, it’s the loggers, forest managers, timber companies, and folks who work in the woods who are the experts.

However, they are never called to testify; only the lawyers and the anti-timber groups are summoned.

Education does not make you an expert.

A degree on the wall says you did the time, but that doesn’t mean you keep up with the latest information and deserve expert status.

A medical degree doesn’t make you a health expert.

We learned that during the pandemic.

The internet has given “expert status” to a lot of junk science and political jargon.

The super cut dude trying to sell you the product that will rid you of belly fat is a fake.

As we like to say, “follow the money.”

Do your research.

Open your source base to listen to a variety of positions.

And if it sounds too good or promises to make you look a certain way, run.

God gave you a brain, and if you use it to ask hard questions, you won’t fall for the “experts” advice.

You will also discover, today, more than any other time in history, you have to be an expert at finding just one thing…the truth.