Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes
The book argues that trustworthy scientific knowledge emerges from social practices and institutions—peer review, replication, transparency, critical scrutiny, and a diversity of perspectives—rather than from an infallible method or lone genius; it explains how scientific consensus, built through community norms and self-correction, provides reliable grounds for public trust while also acknowledging uncertainty and the capacity for error, and it uses historical and contemporary cases (notably climate science) to show how science can be both fallible and dependable when supported by robust institutional safeguards.
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