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Reports of the Death of Expertise May Be Exaggerated: Limits on Knowledge Resistance in Health and Medicine

2021-12-20

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<p>During the past decade the idea that expertise is dead, or at best moribund, has become commonplace. Knowledge resistance appears to be growing more politicized and is increasing across a wide range of science-based topics, such as agriculture, evolution and genetics, vaccination, and climate change; even flat-earth beliefs are undergoing a renaissance. But in many of these areas, denying expert authority is co...

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Literature Corpus work: 497bd509-6aa5-5a9a-a2aa-2f033db46b9b
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6wy53

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