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]]>He also immediately suspended all EPA contracts and grants.
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]]>This disregrad of expertise and expert opinion and it suplantation with “what I want to believe” has been one of my own pet peeves for years now (see War on Experts) and with the rise of Donald Trump and his cult of irrational Trumpanzees fighting back in this war is more important than ever.
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]]>“The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters”
…on this BIG HUGE PROBLEM our country has. I.e. if we don’t like the advice and expertise of experts on a subject we can ignore or even DENY IT. I’m now preordered.
I posted the article back in July but here it is again…
The Death Of Expertise
I am (or at least think I am) an expert. Not on everything, but in a particular area of human knowledge, specifically social science and public policy. When I say something on those subjects, I expect that my opinion holds more weight than that of most other people.
And as for Mr Nichols book coming this winter…
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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]]>Americans, particularly those who voted for Donald Trump, are skeptical of civil service workers and the concept that expertise is an asset for government work, according to the results of a new HuffPost/YouGov survey .
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]]>The post Dunning Kruger nation and the disparagement of expertise | The Skeptical OB appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>We live in Dunning Kruger nation. What do I mean? A variety of very loud “confident idiots” – anti-vaxxers, homebirth advocates, climate change deniers – actually think they know more than the experts in the respective fields. Where did they get that idea?
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]]>The post Prof Brian Cox: ‘Being anti-expert – that’s the way back to the cave’ | Television & radio | The Guardian appeared first on Rationally Thinking Out Loud.
]]>As he moves to BBC1 for his latest natural-world spectacular, TV’s favourite particle physicist talks about his deep belief in the good of public service broadcasting – and how his pop-star past doesn’t make him any less of a scientist
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