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The Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters Victorian Premier's Literary Award Nominee for Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction (2007) The Elegant Universe makes someThe rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily accessible than ever before. While this has had the positive effect of equalizing access to knowledge, it also has lowered the bar on what depth of knowledge is required to consider oneself an "expert." A cult of anti expertise sentiment has coincided with anti intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti vaccination