… the controversy over shale gas in France and in Quebec (Canada). Cross-fertilization between
policy analysis and science … in the construction of these statements remains understudied. …

… exist, some ignorance is a socially constructed obfuscatory … obligated to overcome socially
constructed ignorance. While it … mean all socially constructed ignorance is always exculpatory…

… willful production of ignorance of the effects of tobacco or the social construction of climate
… of knowledge and the analysis of controversies, which involves more attentive definition and …

… ignorance as something other than a lack or lag. As all scientific inquiry must, we can
conceptualize ignorance … the ground over which the figures of scientist and citizen are laid. …

… The scale of analysis used in this contribution – the focus on scientific committees – points
to the value of studying practices as representative of more general institutionalized ignorance…

… “facts” are statements about reality because “nature is the cause that allowed controversies
… Our ignorance as to the ranges of physical and chemical environments on planets and our …

… A “folk epistemologies” orientation that views knowledge systems as socially constructed,
localized … In effect, these religiously controversial aspects of science end up gauging particular …

… , we might ask not how scientists constructed uncertainty surrounding environmental risk, …
of that ignorance, is not necessarily contained by discrete episodes of scientific controversy, …

… 5 Thanks to Sam Fellowes for bringing the controversy … science” and hermeneutics supplying
“the significance.” I resist this, because I think that hermeneutical insight is part of scientific …

… The conclusion this leads us to, says Proctor, is this: “The persistence of controversy is often
… I consider how socially constructed ignorance, in particular white ignorance, creates the sort …