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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Disagreements about expertise aren’t new, but they have grown sharply in today’s connected internet age.
Chapter 3: Human tendencies can sometimes lead us to accept and believe flawed arguments.
Chapter 4: Higher education is now a product, leaving graduates no longer genuine experts.
Chapter 5: Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.
Chapter 6: Modern journalism leaves readers with a misleading sense of knowledge.
Chapter 7: Experts can be wrong, too.
Description
The Death of Expertise (2017) examines the current attacks on science and knowledge that seem to be on the rise in our current technological and political environment. What has happened to objective truths being the truth and facts being indisputable? Why is science now a matter of political partisanship? Find out what’s really going on and why this is one of the most important issues of our day.
Who Should Listen
- Citizens looking for facts rather than political rhetoric
- Readers concerned about fake news and misinformation
- Students of political science and communications