TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,Tom
TI  - The death of expertise: the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters 
SN  - 9780197763834 (paperback)
AV  - HM 851 N622d 2024
U1  - 303.48/33 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Information society
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Sociedad de la información
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Teoría del conocimiento
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Sociología del conocimiento
KW  - Expertise
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Internet
N1  - Previous edition published in 2017; Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -