CounterpointStimulating debate with the British Council

Why should we trust scientists? Is there something about them, or the way their minds are trained to work, that makes them inherently trustworthy? What happens to trust when scientists are seduced by politics, religion, money or glory? Public trust in scientists may be waning – is this simply a long- term shift in public consciousness like the growing distrust of lawyers and journalists and naïve confidence in television stars? Or does it tell us something important about our societies and our world – that the rationalism of the Enlightenment is on the wane?

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