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Jul 16, 2022 · In those contexts, blind societal trust in science would be as democratically undesirable as no trust at all.”. “A public that critically engages with and continuously evaluates...
- Annie Lennon
Oct 17, 2024 · Sociology. Recent years have seen an increased research interest in the determinants of public trust in science. While some argue that democracy should be the political regime most conducive...
Apr 12, 2002 · These factors include the emergence of social movements, like environmentalism and feminism, critical of mainstream science; concerns about the social effects of science-based technologies; epistemological questions made salient by big science; new trends in the history of science, especially the move away from internalist historiography; anti-normative approaches in the sociology of science ...
If what I have had to say about the fundamental and ineradicable role of trust in science is broadly correct, then systematic attempts to subject the conduct of the scientific community to vigilant policing are more likely to kill the patient than to cure the disease.
- Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, Harvey V. Fineberg
- 1995
- 1995
Nov 1, 2023 · However, believing in testimony must not be ‘blind’ trust. It can be rationally justified for recipients to accept information that they cannot verify themselves if it is rationally justified for them to believe in the epistemic trustworthiness of the informant (Fricker, 1994, 1998).
- baurmann@hhu.de
Apr 20, 2023 · The identification of the institution of science with the common good appears to be the basis of trust in science. Conversely, trust is jeopardized whenever science gets involved in political debates, when its diagnoses are uncertain, or when it appears to favor particular interests.
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Oct 21, 2020 · We find that acknowledging and explaining the uncertainty embedded in models does not increase trust for science and its role in policymaking; we also find conditional evidence that criticism of COVID-19 science emphasizing uncertainty can erode public confidence in some contexts.
