Why we should trust scientists

Title:: Why we should trust scientists
Speaker:: Naomi Oreskes
Description:: Many of the world's biggest problems require asking questions of scientists -- but why should we believe what they say? Historian of science Naomi Oreskes thinks deeply about our relationship to belief and draws out three problems with common attitudes toward scientific inquiry -- and gives her own reasoning for why we ought to trust science.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 19:14

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