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The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters / Tom Nichols.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nichols, Thomas M., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society--Political aspects.
- Information society.
- Knowledge, Theory of--Political aspects.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Expertise--Political aspects.
- Expertise.
- Education, Higher--Political aspects.
- Education, Higher.
- Internet--Political aspects.
- Internet.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 309 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, Updated and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface to the Updated and Expanded Edition
- Preface
- 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
- The experts, the public, and the Pandemic
- Conclusion: Experts and democracy.
- Notes:
- Previous edition published in 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nichols, Thomas M., 1960- Death of expertise
- ISBN:
- 9780197763834
- 0197763839
- 9780197763827
- 0197763820
- OCLC:
- 1411840880
- Publisher Number:
- 99996051020
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