Expertise comes with training, experience and accreditation. And expert consensus is the best guide modern democracies have for making decisions about complicated challenges.
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Two major critical minerals projects in Queensland and South Australia will receive $400 million in federal government loans to to deliver Australia’s first high-purity alumina processing facility.
Our research highlights three key reasons for declining trust in experts, and how to regain their authority in future.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, politicians from a range of parties and countries have reported losing respect for experts.
Many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. That overconfidence can thwart democratic politics.
Our study found encouraging people to do their own research comes with risks – including shifting too much responsibility onto the individual.
Critical thinking means seeking out new information – especially facts that might run contrary to what you believe – and being willing to change your mind. And it’s a teachable skill.
It’s human nature to unconsciously rely on quick rules to help make spur-of-the-moment decisions. New research finds physicians use these shortcuts, too, which can be bad news for some patients.
Some so-called superforecasters are claimed to have predicted the course of the pandemic better than scientific experts.
Research shows men’s voices are heard in media reports far more frequently than women’s. Here are some ways journalists and sources can improve this.
More women are making appearances in the news media, and this is due to the coronavirus pandemic. This is not all good news: women are interviewed about the effects of the pandemic on their lives.
How much weight would you put on a scientist’s expertise versus the opinion of a random stranger? People on either end of the political spectrum decide differently what seems true.
The Trump administration has revised CDC health guidelines and undermined its own experts, making it harder for science to prevail over politics in US’s coronavirus strategy.
The prime minister’s adviser claims to have warned about coronavirus pandemics last year. The internet nerds say otherwise.
Behind the scenes, authors have put in long days in research labs, hospitals or teaching online from home, often while juggling kids – before writing into the night for The Conversation.
The coronavirus crisis has given experts and specialists worldwide a lot of power. As countries like New Zealand begin to recover, we need to question that power more than ever.
The science of politics became popular across Europe, alongside the rise of capitalism and empire in the 19th century.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains. Enter the human universal of shamanism.
The shocking lack of gender balance is not just bad for women. It’s doing the public a major disservice.
A public meeting of flat earthers is a product and sign of our times.
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Associate Professor (hon) at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Simon Sweeney is a Friend of The Conversation.
Reader in International Political Economy and Business, University of York
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Research Associate at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership, King's College London
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Vice-Chancellor, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Economics, UCL
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Emeritus professor, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, iHuman and Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
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Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
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Professor of British Government, University of Leeds
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Professor and UNESCO Chair-holder, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth