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The power of authority: why we need to rely on experts

29 Aug 2020 Robert P Crease
Taken from the August 2020 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "The power of authority".

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined why the authority of science is so important – and how it’s so easy to lose. Robert P Crease explains

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Vital factors Authority in science needs political leadership, institutional consistency and trust. (Courtesy: iStock/Vaselena)
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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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