This is normally a word used in third person reference of, e.g., guests on radio or television chat shows whose names are not otherwise known to the audience. In Mordecai Richler’s St Urbain’s Horseman ‘big expert’ is used as a...

A person whose knowledge or skills is acknowledged by their peers to be...

Trust the expert....

The question of expertise—its nature, scope, and application—is one of the most urgent issues in the modern world. The recognition of expertise as an important issue and the analyses of its problems are firmly embedded in the Western...

An "expert" (Audio (US) (help·info)) is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely is accorded authority and status by their peers or the public. An expert,...

George Bernard Shaw famously said that all professions are conspiracies against the laity. Less famously, less elegantly, but at least as accurately, Andrew Abbott argued that professions are conspiracies against each other. Professions compete for authority to do work and for authority over...

I have been smoking for almost 12 years and it is time to stop! But is there a way I can quit without using nicotine? -CJ, Ill. answer Quitting smoking cold-turkey leads to nicotine withdrawal symptoms such as irritability, anger, anxiety, sleep...

Art experts had not known of the existence of a centuries-old sketch believed to be Michelangelo's work before it was found by chance by a researcher going through the archives of St. Peter's Basilica, a Vatican official said Friday.The existence of the sketch was "up...

Roberta Wohlstetter, a military intelligence expert who said faulty analysis of intelligence signals enabled Japan to attack Pearl Harbor and who saw the same danger in a possible Soviet nuclear strike, has died. She was 94.Wohlstetter died Jan. 6, according to a statement Tuesday by...