Author

Daniel Capitanu

Daniel Capitanu is the author of Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber? A Sober Satire on Science, Expertise, and the Trouble with Public Trust.

About the author

Daniel Capitanu writes about questions at the intersection of science, expertise, institutions, epistemology, and public trust. In Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber?, he examines how claims of scientific authority are communicated, how non-experts are expected to evaluate them, and what informed trust requires when evidence, method, institutional procedure, and public policy do not line up neatly.

Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber?

The book grew from a practical problem: modern societies depend on expertise, yet most citizens cannot personally reproduce the expert judgments that shape public decisions. It asks what standards of transparency, inspection, accountability, and second opinion can reasonably be expected when trust must extend beyond direct personal verification.

The recurring plumber analogy gives the inquiry an ordinary point of reference while allowing the book to test what changes when the expert system under examination is scientific, institutional, or political.

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Areas reflected in the current publication

Science and public trust
Epistemology and the philosophy of science
Expertise and institutions
Consensus and dissent
Methodological and jurisdictional boundaries in science
Science, policy, and public accountability

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