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“Around the world, we have seen a growing contempt for expertise, but these citizen scientists are going against that trend,” said Kyle Cleveland, a sociologist at Temple University in Tokyo ...

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Before this, many scientists wrongly believed ... Soon after, Europe was enveloped in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century: the First World War. As a pacifist, Einstein opposed ...