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When doubt becomes a weapon

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  • Brian Wynne

    (Brian Wynne is professor of science studies and associate director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen), Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD, UK. He is the author of Rationality and Ritual: Participation and Exclusion in Nuclear Decision-Making. b.wynne@lancaster.ac.uk)

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Brian Wynne wishes that a book on the vulnerability of scientific evidence to attack by ideologists had grappled more with the larger question of why science is such an easy target.

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  • Brian Wynne, 2010. "When doubt becomes a weapon," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7305), pages 441-442, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7305:d:10.1038_466441a
    DOI: 10.1038/466441a
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    1. Warren Pearce & Sujatha Raman, 2014. "The new randomised controlled trials (RCT) movement in public policy: challenges of epistemic governance," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 47(4), pages 387-402, December.
    2. Myanna Lahsen, 2013. "Climategate: the role of the social sciences," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 119(3), pages 547-558, August.
    3. Sujatha Raman & Warren Pearce, 2020. "Learning the lessons of Climategate: A cosmopolitan moment in the public life of climate science," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(6), November.

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