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Mark Thompson: Consign it to the flames

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Almost everyone accepts that science is our most authoritative guide to understanding the world so why is it so disputed when it comes to public policy? Mark Thompson examines what's happened to the 'argument from authority' in modern rhetoric.

Mark's series of lectures is entitled "The Cloud of Unknowing: Policy, rhetoric and public bewilderment".

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