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Education and outreach

Education and outreach

A matter of trust

21 Aug 2020
Taken from the August 2020 issue of Physics World.

Philip Ball reviews Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes

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Scientific value(s) Naomi Oreskes’ book about trust in science refers often to climate change, but many of the same lessons can be applied to the public and political responses to COVID-19. (Courtesy: iStock/hocus-focus)
What a difference a few months can make. When science historian Naomi Oreskes was writing her latest

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Philip Ball is a science writer based in London, UK, e-mail p.ball@btinternet.com
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