… First, we will argue that scientific ignorance, no less than scientific knowledge, is socially
constructed … and other studies of scientific controversies, as illustrating how different groups of …

… S&T advisory processes raised controversial issues. Since the underlying motive of the
Framework Programmes is to promote European integration through science and technology co-…

… Moreover, the controversy was advocated by a small group of very … scientists, which gave
the impression that this was in fact a scientific controversy, with prominent scientists in both …

… Our own research has pointed to how role perceptions of individual journalists can affect
the reporting of strategic ignorance moves made in scientific controversies. However, they are …

… A related difficulty is the awkward fact that scientific truth itself changes, and is not free of
controversy. Parsons recognized these problems, but counseled theorists to simply live with …

… anticipatory ignorance, and ergo, knowledge systems that contain some, if not all of the
pieces of the knowledge puzzle, and within which it is normally possible to identify controversies, …

… about scientific ignorance and uncertainty that actors use to discredit threatening science. In
so … journalists' contributions to the social construction of ignorance in scientific controversies. …

… is no longer a natural state, but a social construction, ie, the result of social processes. …
that emerges, what choices are made is a matter of controversy. To choose might be inevitable, …

… acting to create the impression that controversy still surrounds issues that the international
… to science’s passive construction of ignorance—that is, the ignorance that scientists produce …

… Sojak and Wicenty have analyzed many works on social studies of science and the history
of scientific controversies in search of examples of such exclusion mechanisms (cf. also …