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Could coronavirus bring back our faith in experts?

Author: Misha Ketchell, Editor &amp; Executive Director, The Conversation

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In recent years an ugly hostility to experts has become entrenched in public life. Populists like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have defined themselves in opposition to elites, gaining high office while pouring scorn on anyone who actually knows what they are talking about. British politician Michael Gove...

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