the grouch reads

The grouch reads....Keith Oatley's Best Laid Schemes (Cambridge UP, 1992)....Chapter Three, "Rationality and The Emotions", p. 160.

Oatley is explaining the errors which led to the Cernobyl disaster... not errors based upon
emotions, but errors based upon the mis-application of technical knowledge...

"the inappropriate use of skilled technical knowledge"

and in the margin of my copy of Oatley's book, I've written: how Socratic!

For, we learn in Plato's Apology that when Socrates (in his quest to refute the Delphic oracle's saying that Socrates was wisest) went to visit the skilled craftsmen of Athens, he felt sure that he would find people who knew many fine things, and they did; however, they did not know where their knowledge stopped and where their ignorance began, and held many opinions not based upon their knowledge.....so Socrates thought himself better than them.....