The Role of Experts in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Limits of Their Epistemic Authority in Democracy
In the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, medical experts (virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians alike) have become instrumental in suggesting policies to counteract the spread of coronavirus. Given the dangerousness and the extent of the contagion, almost no one has questione...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00356/full |