Tag: post-truth
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Science can’t exist without telling a story. The question is not whether we should use it, but how we should use it best Image: ‘Even if an exemplary scientist has trained herself to be utterly objective, her audience will always bring their biased, story-gobbling minds’ Photograph: ijeab/Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists often struggle to communicate the findings of…
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In our new normal, experts are dismissed and alternative facts flagrantly offered. This suspicion of specialists is part of a bigger problem Image: March For Science In New York City, 22 April 2017. Photograph: Erik McGregor/Pacific/Barcroft We often defer to others’ expertise, and for good reason. The entire edifice of modern society only exists thanks…