"There is no evidence that scientists always tell the truth, and the chances are that they are only marginally more honest than, say, politicians" (New Scientist)
Knowledge can be defined as an organised body of information which through experience, theories and studies help the human mind discover and develop new information. Different forms of knowledge include medical, religious, scientific, and common-sense and these in turn have their own language and status and there is privileging of some knowledge i.e., scientific. Like everything, knowledge is also part of a social construction and in this assignment I will take a look back at the past and compare it to how we handle knowledge in today's society. By evaluating different forms of knowledge and looking at the evidence given it will become clear that whether we can trust experts isn't actually the problem, rather it's that we really have no choice, if we can't trust the experts and they are not as accurate as they make......
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