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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Disillusionment of Scientists

I think there's a baseline of distrust of scientific experts in the United States that bears the marks of this long tradition of argumentation about scientists. Having a kind of inhuman view of persons, right. Having a fundamentally skewed and dangerous sense of who we are as human beings. You know, if we look at the sources of a kind of post truth climate.

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