Commentary: Have we become too reliant on deferring to experts?
by Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune
Apr 12, 2022
3 minutes
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In one of the most dramatic moments of the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Marsha Blackburn asked the judge, “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”
After a brief hesitation, Jackson responded, “I’m not a biologist.”
Now on its face, that is a silly remark because you don’t need a biologist to define what a woman is. (The percentage of babies born with indeterminate sex, in which a medical evaluation is necessary, is
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