Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but we need experts

Unforeseen social events, such as the global economic crisis of 2008, the election of Donald Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK, and fake news have undermined our faith in what is true, but some opinions are better-informed than others, writes Clodagh Finn

IT’S hard to get agreement on the origin of the word ‘boffin’, but let me Google it for you.

Ah, yes, the word became popular during the Second World War, when scientists, engineers, or technical experts were referred to as ‘boffins’.