The mystique of science is an essential tool for technocrat… - Jay Lemke

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The mystique of science is an essential tool for technocratic rule. Through it we are all taught that science, as the paradigm of all expert knowledge, has an objective, superior, and special truth that only the superintelligent few can understand. Science education, like it or not, does a great job in foisting these myths on most of us.

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(born 1946) is an American physicist, and professor of education at the University of Michigan.

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