New paper alert! 🎉 What if the problem with “toxic experts” isn’t that we occasionally get a few bad ones… but that our systems are built to produce them? In our new paper, “Toxic Experts in the Longevity Business: A Relational Framing of Emergence”, now accepted at Organization, we show how toxic authority emerges when hype is rewarded, accountability is diluted, and cognitive biases are exploited. Using the commercial longevity sector as our case, we build a multilevel framework and propose cascaded accountability: actionable levers for individuals, professions, and regulators to restore trust in expertise. Huge thanks to my brilliant co-authors @Ozbilgin, Çağla Güven, @CihatErbil, and @trishgreenhalgh! This was a joy to create together.