The death of expertise the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-rang...
| Main Author: | Nichols, Tom, 1960- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The death of expertise
- Experts and citizens
- How conversation became exhausting
- Higher education : the customer is always right
- Let me google that for you : how unlimited information is making us dumber
- The "new" new journalism, and lots of it
- When the experts are wrong
- Conclusion: Experts and democracy.