With an innovative perspective on the social character of ignorance production, agnotology
has been a fruitful approach for understanding the social and epistemological …

As scientific research moves increasingly to the private sector, the social organization of
science undergoes important transformations. Focusing on the production of ignorance …

Agnotology concerns the creation and preservation of confusion and ignorance. Certain
positions are advocated in science in order to promote sociopolitical interests with the result …

Although sociologists have explored how political and economic factors influence the
formation of ignorance in science and technology, we know little about how scientists …

As modern societies have become increasingly technological, science has become both
more important and more politicized. Funding shifts into new research fields and out of old …

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential
topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences …

Ignorance in all its complexity is fast becoming a legitimate object of study that is gaining
increasing traction within the social sciences. This chapter certainly draws inspiration from …

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces
ignorance—both actively and passively, intentionally and unintentionally. We may think of …

Scholars working in science and technology studies have recently argued that we could
learn much about the nature of scientific knowledge by paying closer attention to scientific …

In science, the search for knowledge is often considered an unlimited good or even a “moral
calling”. However, the idea that some knowledge is dangerous and ought to be forbidden is …