Inquisitive Review: Just the Facts
In Inquisitive, the quarterly magazine of Heterodox Academy, Thomas S. Huddle reviews The Weaponization of Expertise:
Popular skepticism of establishment orthodoxy and expert opinion, far from being a sign of ignorance or anti-intellectualism, is often warranted and sometimes closer to reality than what is being put forth by the experts. And the experts, rather than carefully and impartially bringing their expertise to policymaking, often disguise nakedly political judgments as expertise.
Still, their broader indictment of elites for supposing that expertise can settle what are actually political disputes is persuasive—even though there are many who will not be persuaded.
Read the full review, “Just the Facts,” in Inquisitive.