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[Book Review] Embracing the unqualified opinion

ScienceNOW - Fetched: April 13th, 2017, 3:00pm UTC

Populism coupled with renewed anti-intellectualism has recently affected leadership in the United States and abroad. The ramifications for the sci­ence community are yet to be understood, but federal research priorities, fund­ing, and innovation may be affected for decades. Two timely new books—Tom Nichol's The Death of Expertise and Dave Levitan's Not a Scientist—grapple with the dangerous disconnect between expertise, policy-makers, and the public that threat­ens to undermine scientific progress for the foreseeable future. Author: Sheril Kirshenbaum

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