that he only hired me for "my looks." I was out of there right after putting in my two weeks resignation. I watched my back every second of those two weeks. I should have filed a sexual discrimination suit, but they didn't exist back then, and it would have been my word against the "boss."

Widely known but not as widely understood: "The more you learn the less you know".

to come - with DT as a subject matter..

As I read through the analysis, I can also identify many in congress with the same malady..cornyn and McConnell for starters. Especially just this week, with the override of President Obama's veto regarding the Saudi 911 bill...

Now they have an oops moment..seems to me, from what I have read, they just got around to reading the bill - and now blame the Prez....so what else is new....

Brilliant surgeon and thinks that that expertise and knowledge means he's smart enough to spout off on things he has never studied.

Linus Pauling was another - brilliant chemist so he was kind of in the area of medical science to begin with, and he thought massive doses of Vitamin C were the cure for the common cold.

Einstein was fooled by simple magic tricks and would go up to magicians after a show and say things like, "When you did this one trick, this is how you did it, correct?" and he was always wrong.

James Randi probably is the biggest exposer of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Scientists believe they're too smart to be fooled by sleight-of-hand so when Uri Gellar came along in the 1970s displaying powers of mind-over-matter, bending keys and spoons, and the like, some scientists fell for it, and the scientists who were more skeptical were offering up all kinds of crazy explanations (laser beams to soften the metal, etc.) because the simple answer of he's bending the key while distracting you wasn't possible for them.

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