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agnotology

agnotology

English

Alternative forms

  • agnatology

Noun

agnotology (uncountable)

  1. The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
    • 2005, Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance, page 6:
      Our interest here, though, is less in remediation than in what Nancy Tuana has called the "liberatory moment"—which brings us to a more subtle form of agnatology

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  1. Arenson, Karen W. (2006-08-22), “What Organizations Don't Want to Know Can Hurt”, in New York Times