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After watching the video "Expert Failure" by Dr. Roger Koppl I first struggled to understand the point of his argument until he began talking about Flint, Michigan. I personally have been very passionate about the lack of action taken in a reasonable timeline in order to protect the safety and human health of people but especially children. This situation is the perfect example of "expert power" or regulation dictated by a group of people, in this case the government, refusing to allow people who actually have knowledge of the situation to intervene in order to better the problem at a faster rate. While the agreement is probably distracted by monetary reasonings they have no true understanding of the magnitude of the problem because it is highly likely they have never even entered Flint, Michigan. While it is possible for the government to be informed by people who are potential experts on the situation, they too are potentially monetarily motivated. Cases of incidents that revolve around human health such as this should always be solely decided by those who are actually seasoned with knowledge and understandings of handling environmentally harmful situations. This can also lead to the continually failing effort to stop or prevent further global warming or climate change. While these are situations that may not easily be solved, expert power or "guidance" by those who have no knowledge of actual engineering or environmental solutions should not be deciding the fate of how these situations are handled. The government how a common habit of interjecting into situations that or polarize purely because they have found ways to make money off of slowly "solving" or contracting out for solutions from people who have no real intent to help but quite possible extend the situation, so their assistance is required for longer. Why does our society so easily trust the action of our government when problems like Flint, Michigan have been continually occurring for years and have yet to be resolved? Why allow people who are barely able to even follow their own laws be allowed to make health and environmental choices for the rest of the country without being easily correct by those who actually know what they are talking about? This is where the line between expertise and expert power is slowly widening to the point that a large majority of the public will ostracize the experts because they disagree with someone who is only politically based. The government needs to be required to take consensus and information from a large range of experts, not just those who fund them, in order to have a wide enough range of knowledge before they pass any form of regulation or assistance for health situations such as these.
