{"product_id":"weaponization-of-expertise","title":"Weaponization Of Expertise","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe problem with expertise—and the dark side of the equation “knowledge = power.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExperts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as \u003ci\u003eThe Weaponization of Expertise\u003c\/i\u003e makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie decry. Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson use the devastating example of the COVID-19 pandemic to illustrate their case, revealing how the hubris of all-too-human experts undermined—perhaps irreparably—public faith in elite policymaking. Paradoxically, by turning science into dogmatism, the overweening elite response has also proved deeply corrosive to expertise itself—in effect, doing exactly what elite policymakers accuse their critics of doing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA much-needed corrective to a dangerous blind faith in expertise, \u003ci\u003eThe Weaponization of Expertise\u003c\/i\u003e identifies a cluster of pathologies that have enveloped many institutions meant to help referee expert knowledge, in particular a disavowal of the doubt, uncertainty, and counterarguments that are crucial to the accumulation of knowledge. At a time when trust in expertise and faith in institutions are most needed and most lacking, this work issues a stark reminder that a crisis of misinformation may well begin at the top.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57195099521406,"sku":"NW9780262049597","price":19.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780262049597.jpg?v=1778541434","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/weaponization-of-expertise","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}