Trust: From Socrates to spin by Kieron O’Hara, Icon Books, £12.99, ISBN 184046531X Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
CREATIONISTS may denounce modern science, but every time they take a plane trip, they are entrusting their lives to the scientists whose discoveries made powered flight possible. Trust binds society together, although we may not always perceive it. A key aspect is working out who can be relied on, and who cannot. Doubting authority, whether religious or royal, says Kieron O’Hara, gave birth to the modern world – and the “culture of scientific enquiry”.
In a most timely book, O’Hara, from the Intelligence, Agents,…
