The death of expertise : the campaign against established knowledge and why it matters
Thomas M. Nichols (Author)
A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
9780190469429, 9780190469436, 0190469420, 0190469439
968211922
Cover; The Death of Expertise; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Death of Expertise; 1. Experts and Citizens; 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting; 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right; 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber; 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of€It; 6. When the Experts Are Wrong; Conclusion: Experts and Democracy; Notes; Index
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