What is Expertise?

It has been a long seven or so weeks now where our ideas all are drawing into one another but still we are looking at the approach in which to handle all of them. This blog is how do we determine expertise. In the case of the gulf where massive amounts of oil leaked into our oceans and are even now spreading up the east coast who handles such issues. Is it the fishermen who are experts in some parts of the gulf or do we leave this up to the scientists who have the degree to back their claims up. We are hitting what are readings talked about as "technical decision making", where there is a clash between science and technology versus the public domain. In these areas of discussion such as the gulf both parties have considerable contributions to make and we cannot discount either. So what course of actions do we take and still keep our skepticism in mind as if to not be to impulsive but to just sift through the here say. Just as the reading says our skepticism is not whether we can trust scientist but rather if their claims are more right than many of the fishermen claims. Throughout all of these issues we are just trying to figure out what is the correct course of action to take. Truth-expertise and experience is what we are looking for there is much of this to be found in the public domain and most likely much more in the realm of the play makers. Why not let the play makers decide who comes in to the conference room to speak their piece either way we must cohere together fast before situations like this given one rise too quickly and cannot be fixed because our expertise was too plentiful.