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The Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of Science

New Books in the History of Science

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The Politics of Expertise

M is making a season of programming that is exclusively looking at the politics of science and the politics of expertis, which now is more important than ever. i've been thinking about how did we get here? Where did all this distrust come from? Like w you know, people talkin about post truth. A lawb does 't have like a you know, historical antecedent does. It does 'not have a cause. And it made me think about this little known, now mostly forgotten, historical episode called the science wars. They happened in the early nineties. The battle ground was in larly journals and elete publications. But i don't think they had much relevance

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