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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Why is everyone suddenly an expert? (Even when they’re not)
Description: Conspiracy theorists and disinformation around issues such as the Coid-19 pandemic have created an army of non-expert experts around the world. With the advancement of AI and social media dominating people’s lives, properly researched information from trusted sources is needed now more than ever. But has society already gone too far? Tom Nichols is a writer for The Atlantic and the author of “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters”, and joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker.Buy The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matter...