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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Why is everyone suddenly an expert? (Even when they’re not)

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Conspiracy theorists and disinformation around issues such as the Coid-19 pandemic have created an army of non-expert experts around the world. With the advancement of AI and social media dominating people’s lives, properly researched information from trusted sources is needed now more than ever. But has society already gone too far? Tom Nichols is a writer for The Atlantic and the author of “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters”, and joins Ros Taylor in The Bunker. Buy The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund The Bunker by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Ros Taylor. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Robin Leeburn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

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0:16.0

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after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker you'll need to know on news and politics five days a week. I'm Ros Taylor.

1:14.4

Stop banging on about subjects you know nothing about. That's the big message of

1:20.2

Tom Nichols book The Death of Expert

1:22.8

and he's joining me to explain why we need to accept

1:25.6

that some people know better than you do.

1:28.2

Tom, welcome to the bunker.

1:30.0

Thank you.

1:30.4

Thanks for having me.

1:32.1

This is an elitist book, but you don't believe that elitism is anything to be ashamed of, do you?

1:39.2

No, you know, elitism is a word that people, I mean it has a pejorative connotation and sometimes I think for most people, it sounds like a word that excludes others for purely style reasons maybe or other poor reasons to exclude people from a particular circle.

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