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Why Don't Americans Trust Experts Anymore?

Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," joins the program.

05/15/2020

Amanpour and Company

Why Don't Americans Trust Experts Anymore?

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Tom Nichols, author of "The Death of Expertise," joins the program.

A tussle between science and politics is defining the pandemic response of the Trump administration. How did this increasing rejection of expertise get started? Professor Tom Nichols wrote a prescient book on the subject in 2017, and joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.

05/15/2020

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