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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numismat, post: 3155577, member: 15019&quot;]This IMO is the biggest problem with a hobby where reliable information can already be hard to come by. I gave up debating with Doug and certain others (both here and elsewhere) because it&#039;s pointless. People who are &quot;wrong, but strong&quot; (to quote my wife) both misinform and frustrate. But let me ask another question... why are otherwise knowledgeable people even in a position where they force and argue bad info? For the most part it seems to me a simple trick of the ego where people assume that their expertise in one thing translates to another. It often does not. I&#039;ve seen people widely regarded as top experts in their area of numismatics be completely wrong on a very basic issue and argue it to death. How do you argue with someone who you know is wrong, but everyone else puts on a pedestal as supremely knowledgeable? The readers are partially to blame, because they also tend to believe an expert&#039;s knowledge of one thing translates to another.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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