The downside to F1's show and tell proposal
Technology lies at the heart of the F1 story and it fascinates fans, which is why the commercial rights holder plans to compel teams to show more of their ‘secrets’. STUART CODLING fears this will encourage techno-quackery…
We’ve had enough of experts. Michael Gove said it, so it must be true.
I’m being flippant, of course. “We’ve had enough of experts”: the enduring charm of quackery was the title of a fascinating 2018 article in the British Journal of Psychiatry. Medicine was the subject, but you could easily swing the lens around to focus on Formula 1’s guff-saturated information economy.
“My interest,” said author Nick Ross, “is the boundary between easy thinking – fast, intuitive, barely conscious and which leads to quackery, prejudice, populism – and the stuff you have to work at: slow, calculating, conscious, which leads to science, maths, evidence and, above all, accepting contra-evidence (the stuff that challenges or undermines a truth you’ve long regarded as fundamental).”
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