Dr. Roger Koppl in a lecture based on his book, “Expert Failure,” made several key points about human nature and experts. One main aspect that he focuses on is that experts are human and that means you can not trust everything they are saying because some may have negative intentions or they just “do not want to seek the truth,” as Koppl says. This does not infer that all experts are liars, it just indicates that we need to second guess everything we hear even if it is from an expert. Along with the human aspect is that experts are not smarter than other normal human beings. The fact they may have the discipline to intensely study a topic to become an expert does not automatically make them in the genius category. There is one last aspect of being a human that alters the perspective of what it means to be an expert and that is the human nature of incentives. These incentives may not be necessarily selfish, but they are incentives nevertheless. This can create their expert opinions to benefit a future goal they have in mind. These points were all made with examples to prove that experts can be flawed in multiple ways. Expert power was another topic talked about in the lecture as well. There was an example that stood out to me from Bill Nye that showed expert power failure. Nye was on the topic of climate change and asked questions that could act as a solution “...should we penalize people for having extra kids in developed counties?” This was very fascinating to me as it does make sense to consider this based only on data, but any family and mother would argue that the question is preposterous. When it comes down to it, experts are just people that have a vast amount of knowledge in a topic. This does not mean they are the better of the human species. They too are just as flawed as the rest of humanity. Some may have bad intentions, but all of these factors do not mean to stop listening to experts. If a doctor (expert in the human body) told you that you broke your arm, you should believe it. The generation I am living in today has to second guess everything we are told, from the experts on political science on the news to the expert weight-loss experts claiming apple cider vinegar is the best thing to lose weight. All experts are not trustworthy creating a lack of trust in general of all experts.