IB Assessment - Trust experts or not?

TOPIC: How important are the opinions of experts in the search for knowledge?

OPINION: We should int

ake experts opinion 

of a matter we do not understand, but always remember truth is relative and their point of view shouldn't form our perspective of

 a subject. I should als

o add, experts are not always correct and might guide you in the wrong way instead of leading you through the path 

of knowledge. They are experts on one subject and to really know something you need to be able to relate it to the whole picture.

SUPPORT 1

In science and religion, you cannot base your believes by listening to experts on the matters. You have to form your own opinion and believes depending on how you feel toward one or the other. The picture shows a 

kid being dragged by an expert of each branch to take a side without letting him truly have a personal opinion.

SUPPORT 2:

Before America was disco

vered experts would claim the earth was flat. We now know better and we known that those experts 

were wrong despite they were professionals. Anyone who dared go against these ideas was puni

shed, and the experts led people in the wrong direction. In the picture we can see what scientists believed to be the end of the world and the fall toward the under world.

http://www.pensionriskmatters.com/flat-earth-society(1).jpg

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