Is There a Way to Get a PhD?

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i think nearly all my colleagues would say that standardized tests don't do a good job, wifh, predicting who's going to be a talented orian. And in again, and even the model of plucking the talented child out of obscurity, maybe that's the wrong model. I mean, maybe what we ought doing us trying to figure out how to fix our system so that all talented children, or all children, get the opportunity to grow up their talents as best as possible.

In this interview, based on her landmark book, Why Trust Science?, historian of science Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength — and the greatest reason we can trust it. Drawing vital lessons from cases where scientists got it wrong, Oreskes shows how consensus is a crucial indicator of when a scientific matter has been settled, and when the knowledge produced is likely to be trustworthy.