Toby Cooper
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Can, and should, everyone do their own research regarding complex issues such as climate change and public health measures?
Introduction The responsibility and ability of individual citizens to exercise intellectual autonomy by undertaking their own research into highly specialised topics raises some meaningful questions for social epistemology. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this issue stepped out of the lecture-halls and ivory -towers and into the public square. It became one of urgency due to the socio-political effects of science scepticism, and the rejection and…
