"His insistence that he knows better than ordinary people what should be done with their property and his desire that he and his fellow experts should have the power to dispose of it mark him as something more than a purveyor of technical expertise.... In a press conference of May 1962, President Kennedy explained that.... the problems we face are technical ones. This means that they are 'beyond the comprehension of most men.'... If [one] accepts passively [the expert's] expertise he is also accepting his values. There is no value-free expertise."
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