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SUMMARY: Have People Stopped Listening to Expertise?
DESCRIPTION: Join us for a discussion of the growing populist rejections of
  science and topical expertise\, and the potential harms this poses to libe
 ral democracies.
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 ng>About:</strong> Amidst measles outbreaks\, climate denials\, and other r
 un-ins between established science and populist rejections\, there is a gre
 at fear of misinformation and science populism rumbling in the present\, as
  if trust in science is a safety bolt whose removal opens the flood gates t
 o a wider erosion of liberal democracy. This talk presents some key results
  from the comparative\, mixed-methods research project 'REACTOR'\, which us
 es quantitative and qualitative data from Europe and the US to study what m
 akes lay citizens accept\, resist or ignore expertise\, whether it comes fr
 om their doctor\, from science and professional experts more broadly\, or f
 rom government institutions. The project combines quantitative approaches f
 rom political psychology with qualitative and interpretive approaches from 
 the sociology of knowledge\, expertise and professions.</p><p><strong>Speak
 er</strong>: Lars Thorup Larsen\, Associate Professor\, PhD\, Department of
  Political Science\, Aarhus University\, Denmark\, currently Visiting Resea
 rcher at SPPGA\, UBC</p>
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