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Why Democracies Need Science

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Why Democracies Need Science

By Harry Collins, Robert Evans

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We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions experts must be subservient to social and political life. In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be protected from sci...Show more

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9781509509614

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2017

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Why Democracies Need Science

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