Why Don't Americans Trust Experts Anymore?
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Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," joins the program.
A tussle between science and politics is defining the pandemic response of the Trump administration. How did this increasing rejection of expertise get started? Professor Tom Nichols wrote a prescient book on the subject in 2017, and joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
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Why Don't Americans Trust Experts Anymore?
Clip: 5/15/2020 | 17m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
A tussle between science and politics is defining the pandemic response of the Trump administration. How did this increasing rejection of expertise get started? Professor Tom Nichols wrote a prescient book on the subject in 2017, and joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.
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