Knowledge used to be deep: perfected and passed down through generations. Information these days is horizontal,—it just gets passed around without diving into the details. When science starts to follow popularity, we can lose track of who the experts are. Could we actually lose scientific knowledge?
Click above to listen to part 3 of Skeptic Check: Know-It-Alls, featuring Alex Bentley, anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, brother of Molly, and author of “The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms.”
Segments:
Part 1: Assailing Expertise
Part 2: Assuming Expertise
Part 3: Assessing Expertise
