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I bought an encyclopedia
NOTE: This is a companion post to my piece in Public Books, 'The Encylopedia Project: Or, how to know in…
As far as I could tell, this meant just Googling materials, copying and pasting what they found, stealing photos on the internet, and generally neither digesting nor evaluating anything that popped up in search results. Did you get your daily servings of rocks today?Some of my colleagues insist that when our experts are constantly held to account and questioned, that means that expertise is more important than ever in our society. They must not just blindly translate our shambling institutions and strained social contracts into a general distrust of the world, mistaking conspiratorial thinking for critical analysis or independent thought.
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