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Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Jan 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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Andrew Jewett is the author of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America (2020) and Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012). He has taught at Harvard, Yale, NYU, Vanderbilt, and Boston College and held fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Cornell Society for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Released:
Jan 12, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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