Sentences with word «agnotology»

You might argue that e.g. global - warming deniers are not ignorant, as they are typically well aware of the body of scientific knowledge that they choose to actively disbelieve, so they are not a proper subject of agnotology as I understand it.

Raising Climate Literacy through Addressing Misinformation: Case Studies in Agnotology - Based Learning.

«Agnotology as a Teaching Tool: Learning Climate Science by Studying Misinformation.»

Legates, D.R., W. Soon, and W.M. Briggs, 2013: Learning and teaching climate science: The perils of consensus knowledge using agnotology, Science and Education 22: 2007 — 2017.

First, agnotology professes to study «ignorance», not «disbelief» as such.

Wikipedia actually has made a good statement concerning agnotology: Some of the root causes for culturally induced ignorance are media neglect, corporate or governmental secrecy and suppression, document destruction, and myriad forms of inherent or avoidable culturopolitical selectivity, inattention, and forgetfulness.

While I don't wish to conflate agnotology and Strochiasticism, for the moment I will listen to the sheriff who has actually spoken to the alleged assassin:

However, disinformation also provides an opportunity for agnotology — that is, learning from the analysis of mistakes and misrepresentations.

If the business in question has a formal policy of supporting the fight to mitigate climate change, this should be specifically cited and contrasted with their sponsorship of scientific agnotology.

Since imbiciles are thin on the ground at both ordinary and extraordinary institutions of higher learning, students of the sociology of agnotology need to start at the bottom of the university pecking order and work their way up til they find institutions that fill the bill.

If you're claiming that uncertainty means we can not know whether we're affecting the climate and temps can just as well go down as up, the fit with agnotology is clear.

In the latest volley, from Legates et al 2013, John Cook's «97 % consensus» survey has become the case study in agnotology.

The significance of agnotology is that the scientific humanist revolution has withered on the vine and failed.

In their reply, Bedford and Cook (Sci Educ 22:2019 — 2030, 2013), seeking to apply agnotology to climate science, asserted that fossil - fuel interests had promoted doubt about a climate consensus.

Just what is agnotology?

Last May saw the release of Proctor's latest book, Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance, coedited with Londa Schiebinger.

Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.

The second phase buys time for... geoengineering projects... Mirowski points out that the first and second phases of the climate change «debate» bear a strong resemblance to the activities of the Tobacco Industry... part of the Neoliberal toolkit... new form of public «debate» — «agnotology» [which I understand to mean a deliberate multiplication of contrasting viewpoints intended to confuse and delay meaningful response].

He uses the phrase «agnotology», which is «the study of how and why we do not know things».

He identifies this kind of argument as part of the Neoliberal toolkit and notes the new word introduced to ease discussion of this new form of public «debate» — «agnotology» [which I understand to mean a deliberate multiplication of contrasting viewpoints intended to confuse and delay meaningful response].

I'd object that public ignorance that there is a scientific consensus on many aspects of global warming is a proper subject of agnotology, and that no theory of this ignorance can ignore the active efforts of those sort - of - knowledgeable deniers.

Agnotology has been defined in a variety of ways including «the study of ignorance and its cultural production» and «the study of how and why ignorance or misunderstanding exists.»

More recently, however, it has been posited that agnotology should be used in the teaching of climate change science.

But rather than use agnotology to enhance an understanding of the complicated nature of the complex Earth's climate, the particular aim is to dispel alternative viewpoints to the so - called consensus science.

In Agnotology: The Cultural Production of Ignorance, edited by Robert Proctor, and Londa Schiebinger, Stanford: Stanford University Press.

So, in the spirit of adventure, I'm going to step away from my usual program of soft and fluffy topics like the bubbliness of bitcoins, the uselessness of navies and the agnotology of climate denial, and tackle the thorny question of running vs walking.

«Agnotology» is thus just a fancy way of saying «denier.»

Aah — the skeptic psychologists are catching on at last: «Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead.»

I have been asking Dana Nuccitelli and the Guardian for a comment on the rejection of the Benestad (Cook, Nuccitelli) et al paper on «agnotology» and the discredited Cook et al paper.

Daniel Bedford, & John Cook respond: Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change: A Response to Legates, Soon and Briggs

Climate Consensus and «Misinformation»: a Rejoinder to «Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change» decisively rejects suggestions by Cook and others that those who say few scientists explicitly support the supposedly near - unanimous climate consensus are misinforming and misleading the public.

Presumably, «agnotology» means an absence of information and a lack of basis for knowing.

Whoever is pulling the President's strings is a master of Agnotology.