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Harry Collins - Are We All Scientific Experts Now? - 9780745682044 - V9780745682044
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Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

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Description for Are We All Scientific Experts Now? Paperback. To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science s pre-eminence. Num Pages: 140 pages, black & white halftones, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHB; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 168.

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science.

In this provocative new book Harry Collins seeks to redeem scientific expertise, and reasserts science’s special status. Despite the messy realities of day-to-day scientific endeavor, he emphasizes the superior moral qualities of science, dismissing the dubious “default” expertise displayed by many of those outside the scientific ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
168g
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745682044
SKU
V9780745682044
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-1

About Harry Collins
Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written 17 previous books including the well-known Golem series on science. Harry Collins is continuing his research on the nature of scientific knowledge, on the ... Read more

Reviews for Are We All Scientific Experts Now?
"To the extent we might come to witness a reaction against the fallen idol of everyone thinking they are an expert, Are We All Scientific Experts Now? might come to be a classic, a Gangnam Style shot across the STS bow." (Metascience) "In his remarkable manifesto, sociologist Harry Collins, a major voice in the field of science studies, ... Read more

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