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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...

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Main Author: Nichols, Tom, 1960- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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Information society > Political aspects.
Knowledge, Theory of > Political aspects.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Expertise > Political aspects.
Education, Higher > Political aspects.
Internet > Political aspects.
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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.

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