What You Know, or Whom You Serve?
Alice is strongly affiliated with an organization with expressed Peak Oil interests, and
Bob is a scholar in a Peak-Oil relevant discipline. Otherwise Alice and Bob are equal.
How would you regard their relative credibility?
Area of Expertise:
Alice is an expert in
Bob is an expert in:
Should Alice's opinion count more
than Bob's opinion?
Affiliation:
Alice is affiliated with
Bob is affiliated with:
Should Alice's opinion count more
than Bob's opinion?
Assuming that in every other respect Alice and Bob are equal