Christiane Gerblinger on how experts self-sabotage

16/01/2023 31 min Episodio 63
Christiane Gerblinger on how experts self-sabotage

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Episode Synopsis

When science advisors are employed by governments, how do they reconcile the competing needs to accurately convey the science, while ensuring it can be of maximum use in the current political context?
Dr Christiane Gerblinger has one answer: her research suggests that advisors adopt strategies to make themselves deliberately ignorable.
 
Resources mentioned in this episode
How Government Experts Self-Sabotage: The language of the rebuffed. https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/how-government-experts-self-sabotage