02865cam a2200481 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000300009502000270012502000290015202000250018104000280020604100080023404200080024205000230025008200140027310000490028724501080033625000500044426400490049430000310054333600260057433700280060033800270062850000400065550400620069550504450075752006130120265000440181565000550185965000450191465000530195965000290201265000350204165000340207665000420211065000330215265000370218577601610222223411510BJBSDDR20250331170058.0ta231204s2024    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2023049382  a9780197763834 (paperback)  a0197763839 (paperback)  a9780197763827 (hardback)  z9780197763858 (epub)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC  aeng  apcc14aHM 851bN622d 202400a303.48/331 aNichols, Tom q(Thomas M.), d1960-eauthor.14aThe death of expertise :bthe campaign against established knowledge and why it matters /cTom Nichols.  aSecond edition, Updated and expanded edition. 1aNew York :bOxford University Press, c2024.  axxiii, 309 pages ;c21 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aPrevious edition published in 2017.  aIncludes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.0 aPreface 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.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aInformation societyxPolitical aspects. 4aSociedad de la informaciónxAspectos políticos 0aKnowledge, Theory ofxPolitical aspects. 4aTeoría del conocimiento xAspectos políticos 0aKnowledge, Sociology of. 4aSociología del conocimiento  0aExpertisexPolitical aspects. 0aEducation, HigherxPolitical aspects. 0aInternetxPolitical aspects. 4aInternet  xAspectos políticos08iOnline version:aNichols, Thomas M., 1960-tDeath of expertisebSecond edition.dNew York : Oxford University Press, [2024]z9780197763858w(DLC) 2023049383