ISBN:
9780197763841
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.430973
Keywords:
Information society Political aspects
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Knowledge, Theory of Political aspects
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Expertise Political aspects
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Education, Higher Political aspects
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Internet Political aspects
Abstract:
Since the original publication of The Death of Expertise, the assault on experts has only ratcheted up. Numerous forces have driven the increase, including a deepening of populist anti-intellectualism, a notable rise in conspiratorial thinking, and the hostile reaction to the medical establishment during the Covid pandemic. Trump and Trumpism, of course, have also played an outsized role, and social media continues to fan the flames. In this new edition, Tom Nichols covers the latest developments in the past half dozen years. Along with updating all the chapters, he has added a chapter on the Covid pandemic. Arguably the most influential book written on the attack on expertise in our era, this new edition is sure to remain the standard book on the subject.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Praise page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Updated and Expanded Edition -- Preface to the 2017 Edition -- Introduction: The Death of Expertise -- 1. Experts and Citizens -- 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting -- 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right -- 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber -- 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of It -- 6. When the Experts Are Wrong -- 7. The Experts, the Public, and the Pandemic -- Conclusion: Experts and Democracy -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
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