Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021)
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The Relationship Between Epistemic State and Power
When we mess with beliefs and belief systems, we exert a type of power and influence that often goes unnoticed. And yet, and is entirely, entirely under regulated, in my opinion, an particularly for example as it relates to drugs. So i could just imagine i'm a physician, i'm sort of having trusted a, the peduformarep a, you knowno following what ordinarily would be sort of o proper aposthemic scruples,. only to find that he had been duped. It does seem to me to be part of the, a part of the abuse of the authority, of the perceived authority, has to do with am the ability to sert of make
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