Month: May 2018

I feel I missed opportunity to encourage more students to consider how ‘experts’ are perceived (see this video from the UK Referendum campaign. former Education Minister Michael Gove infamously states “..people have had enough of experts). A nuanced and balanced essay should consider what the idea of an ‘expert’ might mean to different people (knowledge communities in TOK talk).

Here’s a good article from Prospect. An interesting conclusion to a student essay could consider how, when experts can agree and a consensus is reached, we may still have a problem with the relationship of trust between the experts and ‘joe public’ (the average man in the street). This is especially true with the current controversies in the UK surrounding Doctors, the Family Court and life and death decisions concerning terminally ill babies (great RLS for Practise Presentations: Charlie Guard and Alfie Evans) Here is a link to a populist anti-science website…. worryingly, the arguments will seem credible to some people.