Trust, risk and experts

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English - July 24, 2021 17:58 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Episode: Trust, risk and experts
Pub date: 2021-07-18

Public trust in experts is on the wane. And when we consider that a key role of experts is the assessment and management of risk, this mistrust becomes worrying, given that life in an industrialised technology-driven world keeps getting riskier by the day. How should experts communicate risk? and what kind of trust should we place in them?

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