New research from experts of the Institute of International Media Studies (IIMS) from Washington has found that a number of experts offered support to provide a “blanket” of credibility to otherwise hard to prove and sometimes completely fallacious claims that media organizations attempt to portray as absolute truth. “It’s a pay-to-say” scheme, where bogus research and manipulated data is used to substantiate literally any narrative” one unnamed and faceless expert said.
Facing an all time low in public credibility and nowhere else to turn to for help, large corporate media has used the term “experts” to bring a thin veil of credibility to sometimes ludicrous claims. At the same time, shielding itself in case of “mistakes”. It’s settled in science that science can change, specially if you change your science to get the results you want, an expert in experts said. Another expert claims that the previous mentioned expert is not quite correct, and that in fact “the way to calculate the results might change overtime based on feedback, therefore, it is not the science itself changing, but rather the way the science is done by different experts”. It is still hard to define what the expert meant by it, specially because we could not figure out which expert is which.
While the credibility of anonymous and unqualified experts has taken a hit, especially for their association with organizations that held no credibility whatsoever, the Association of International Experts (AIE) based in Jerusalem has taken steps to regain public trust. “It is a real problem that we are facing and we are looking to take action”, said one representative. “Our first step would be to had a registered and exclusive membership, for which you would have to pay a fee to us, before being allowed to represent yourself as expert in the media”, elaborates.
While uncertain what this extra step would do to curb the issue at hand in the first place, it would certainly help with funds to pay and direct marketing campaigns and hopefully clean up the experts credibility’s.
