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050 1 4 _aHM 851
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082 0 0 _a303.48/33
100 1 _aNichols, Tom
_q(Thomas M.),
_d1960-
_eauthor.
_919028
245 1 4 _aThe death of expertise :
_bthe campaign against established knowledge and why it matters /
_cTom Nichols.
250 _aSecond edition, Updated and expanded edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2024.
300 _axxiii, 309 pages ;
_c21 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aPrevious edition published in 2017.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (page 299) and index.
505 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.
520 _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.
650 0 _aInformation society
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aSociedad de la información
_xAspectos políticos
_91363
650 0 _aKnowledge, Theory of
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aTeoría del conocimiento
_xAspectos políticos
_935247
650 0 _aKnowledge, Sociology of.
650 4 _aSociología del conocimiento
_91975
650 0 _aExpertise
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aInternet
_xPolitical aspects.
650 4 _aInternet
_xAspectos políticos
_91308
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aNichols, Thomas M., 1960-
_tDeath of expertise
_bSecond edition.
_dNew York : Oxford University Press, [2024]
_z9780197763858
_w(DLC) 2023049383
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