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When Michael Gove famously said that ‘people have had enough of experts' he was onto something – even though his quote was taken out of context. We live in the age of Google, where everyone can be their own expert. Don't know anything about quantum physics?Just Google it, read the first couple of search results and voilà. Sorry

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