Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agnotology, aggregated by home.social.
twitter debates:
all tactics, no knowledge/experience/expertise
both side think they won
no one walks away having learned a thing
everyone is worse off for having witnessed it
#TwitterDebates #twitter #debate #character #tactics #manipulation #groupthink #LogicalFallacy #integrity #rivalry #antagonistic #followers #ego #narcissism #agnotology
Vanishing Australian native wildlife
"The Invasive Species Council said... findings revealed the growing disconnect between Australians and wildlife, as local species declined while introduced animals – like cats, foxes and rabbits – became an increasingly familiar sight."
"About 10% considered cats wildlife."
"About one in six NSW, QLD and Vic residents think foxes are native animals and a third believe quolls are introduced."
"One in five thought cane toads were native."
“Sadly Australia is a world leader in extinctions." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/20/outfoxed-how-well-do-you-know-your-native-animals-australians-questionable-quoll-knowledge-exposed
#Biodiversity #wildlife #NativeWildlife #conservation #illiteracy #ignorance #KnowledgeShortfalls #agnotology#education #pets #pests #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #extinction #ecocide #UnknownCountry #BiodiversityLoss
The Politics of Ignorance
One of the important ideas in the sociology of science is also one of the easiest to misunderstand: knowledge is socially produced. This does not mean that scientists simply make things up, it means something much more practical. Science is a human activity, it requires people, institutions, money, equipment, archives, universities, laboratories, communities and time. What we choose to investigate - and what we choose not to investigate - is therefore shaped by society. That means there is […]
The bills seeking to shield oil companies from lawsuits send the message that “you can pollute with impunity,” said Carly Phillips of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It’s really a thumb in the eye of places that are affected by climate change.”
#attribution #publicLaw #climatePolicy #agnotology #cancelCulture #science #energy #oilAndGas #climateChange #climateScience #impunity #USPol #fossilFuels #coal #propublica
Carly Phillips @carlyphillips.bsky.social , a senior scientist with the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, said she saw a "broad attack on attribution science that's been happening for many months," including from Republicans in Congress, who are pushing to outlaw climate accountability lawsuits.
"Judges need reliable scientific information about climate change so that they can evaluate those cases on their merits".
#attribution #publicLaw #climatePolicy #agnotology #influence #science #energy #oilAndGas #climateChange #climateScience #impunity
But his techniques are inpsired by techniques studied THOROUGHLY by #agnotology
It surprises me very much because #nathancofnan claims to be wokring in the field of #epistemology & namely History of Biology Science
I'm wondering how #agnotology & #epistemology fields would react to his "fantasies"
So this guy mimicking intellectual speaking, was fired from #Cambridge before:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ3i...
#nathancofnan #racism #pseudoscience #antiscience
#agnotology #smokescreenstudy
Nick Ferrari challenges Cambri...
This mental landscape was prepared by all the oil lobby propaganda #agnotology constantly in "debates" in USA about #climatechange during the 2000's
Close to irak war bullsh*tting
USA takes the habit to discuss endlessly so as to promote falsity
As a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT: #AMERICANFREESPEECHEIL
This mental landscape was prepared by all the oil lobby propaganda #agnotology constantly in "debates" in USA about #climatechange during the 2000's
Close to irak war bullsh*tting
USA takes the habit to discuss endlessly so as to promote falsity
As a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT: #AMERICANFREESPEECHEIL
Oil and Gas majors created the myth that "natural gas" is clean — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane gas decades earlier than previously reported.
A CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution: https://climateintegrity.org/projects/natural-gas-fraud
#disinformation #climatePolicy #attribution #agnotology #influence #science #energy #oilAndGas #methane #climateChange
"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
Research on demand
The fields of energy and utilities commonly request studies: https://skywriter.blue/@sevier.io/3mplv7fl4zc2n
#faculty #research #influence #conflictsOfInterest #fossilFuels #CCS #CarbonCapture #carbon #agnotology
A journalist from "Libé/Libération" declares: since 20 years in this journal, I have never seen economists or editors-in-chief read the GIEC reports (2&3) dedicated to adaptation. Not a single page
#climatechange #journalism #disinformation #agnotology
article in FR: www.lemonde.fr/sciences-au-...
A journalist from "Libé/Libération" declares: since 20 years in this journal, I have never seen economists or editors-in-chief read the GIEC reports (2&3) dedicated to adaptation. Not a single page
#climatechange #journalism #disinformation #agnotology
article in FR: www.lemonde.fr/sciences-au-...
Robert Socolow was a founder of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative of #Princeton University. He has articulated pathways to reduction of carbon dioxide emissions for minimizing climate change, especially the concept of climate stabilization wedge.
In his 2007 Senate testimony, Robert Socolow cited the proposed 500-MW H2 and #CCS project at BP's Carson refinery in California as evidence of the technology's commercial maturity. The project was highlighted as an example of a near-commercial, full-scale deployment effort.
But it never happened.
https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/41802.pdf
#university #science #influence #conflictsOfInterest #fossilFuels #globalWarming #carbon #agnotology #institutionsDeceive #EstelleSays
“History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.” — Hilary Mantel, historical novelist
* Paraquat, Parkinson's Disease and Agnotology (The Deliberate Production of Ignorance)
"Nearly 60 years ago, a chemical company found that skin exposure to very high doses of its weedkiller paraquat caused “weakness and incoordination” in rabbits. Large amounts of the herbicide, which is used on corn, cotton, and vineyards, caused some mice and rats in its labs to develop a stiff gait or tremors. A decade later, an autopsy of a farm worker exposed to paraquat showed “degenerative change” in the “cells of the substantia nigra,” a pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease." >>
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mds.29371
* "Australia's chemical regulator has approved the restricted use of the controversial herbicide paraquat, which has previously been linked to Parkinson's disease...The regulator's review of the herbicide has been underway since 1997...The decision comes weeks after Australia's top neurologists said they had been ignored by the chemical regulator." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2026-06-23/apvma-chemical-regulator-decision-paraquat-herbicide-parkinsons/106775018
#pesticides #agnotology #WillfulIgnorance #Paraquat #regulation #APVMA #food #health #IndustrialAgriculture #weedkillers #farmers #science
From climate denial to agnotology (the study of how ignorance and doubt are deliberately, culturally, or politically manufactured)
"It’s worth noting, human-made greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver of rising global average temperatures. However, El Niño can tip these temperatures to record breaking levels." >>
https://theconversation.com/the-weather-bureau-has-just-declared-an-el-nino-what-could-this-mean-for-australia-285376
"Agnotology is the study of deliberate, culturally cultivated ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data (i.e. disinformation). More generally, the term includes the condition where more knowledge of a subject creates greater uncertainty." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology
Fernández Pinto, M. and A. Leuschner (2026). Epistemic Intimidation and Illegitimate Value-Influence in Science. In: The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science, ed. by K. Elliott and T. Richards, 304–314. >>
https://annaleuschner.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/final-version-forthcoming-routledge-handbook-values-and-science.pdf
#FossilFuels #ignorance #GHG #InsuranceAffordability #experience vs #ClimateDenial #denial #agnotology #CorporateInterests #lobby #CulturallyCultivatedIgnorance #coal #climate #droughts #bushfires #ElNiño #science #ClimateScience #AMOC #HABs #EpistemicIntimidation #ClimateAction
Image: Hot ocean, hot Earth
#Agnotology - die Wissenschaft vom Nichtwissen:
* Taktische Überbetonung von Unsicherheit
* Industrie-freundliche "Institute", ThinkTanks zur Generierung von Kontroversen und Pseudo-Dissens
* Pseudo-Experten
* Medienmanipulation (Ausnutzung "ausgewogener" Berichterstattung, faktisch BIAS)
* gezielte Bedrohung und Diffamierung von Forschern
Hörsaal - Deutschlandfunk Nova: Neue Strategien - Wie Lobbyisten Klimaschutz verhindern https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/neue-strategien-wie-lobbyisten-klimaschutz-verhindern
mit vielen weiteren Aspekten und Beispien
Children are happier in #NL than in the writer's home country (the USA) because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population.
The Guardian continues publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jun/16/dutch-children-unusually-happy-healthy-avondvierdaagse-walking-festival
#folklore #lifeStyle #dumpTheGuardian #theGuardian #media #agnotology
fight against the agnotology
Letztens hatte ich jemand, der dachte der Stamm eines kleinen #Baumes zieht sich in die Länge (Höhe).
Ich erwiderte sinnbildlich:
Der Stamm wird nur durch Individuenkonkurrenz oder/und durch schonenden Einsatz der Baumschere/ der Finger, länger. Zu Anfang aber auch später sind Schafe, Ziegen und Rehe nicht sehr geeignet, die machen mehr kaputt. #Baum.Natur im #urbanen Umfeld, #Standraum
#Baum #Natur #bäume
#agnotology ?
No Rachel, there is no fine line
American media are dancing on this line since I read them
I cannot say I am objective, all climate denial content spread during the 2000's was exactly in the same vein
I am no expert in #agnotology #disinformation #propaganda
Researchers may comment for corrections
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bono5gae7m6r3qpfxomshwbd/post/3mkt5mucxqk2c
No Rachel, there is no fine line
American media are dancing on this line since I read them
I cannot say I am objective, all climate denial content spread during the 2000's was exactly in the same vein
I am no expert in #agnotology #disinformation #propaganda
Researchers may comment for corrections
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bono5gae7m6r3qpfxomshwbd/post/3mkt5mucxqk2c
@jonmsterling Maybe mathematics was the last science field sort of immune to #agnotology techniques/ : usage of science with bad-faith, with hidden purposes, without the purpose of creating more knowledge
I am not expert in maths to see the depth of your fear
But I notice it resembles how other scientific fields can be weaponized, for example against #climatechange
“The authoritarian practices required by fossil capital in the global south [and middle east] were often geographically separated from liberal forms of governance in the West. This made it possible for many… to remain ignorant of their complicity in fossil authoritarianism.”
"In the US post-war economy, fossil fuel systems functioned as the means to becoming a real man - if burning them entailed violence, this was constructed as an unfortunate side effect to be made invisible to privileged consumers. But fossil fuels have become a dead end, both for the planet and for the goal of middle-class jobs. In this context, burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience, a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order."
from Cara Daggett’s 2018 article “Petro-masculinity”
#sadism #masculinity #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #energy #manliness #MAGA #growth #development #agnotology
I had some ideas, which I have not yet totally achieved
I wanted to think up something based on the guarantee that you can explain something, a term: not really like a domain of expertise...
rather in terms of being able to explain to someone else, be it at the same level or a less advanced level
Not a 100% guarantee without error... But like a bag of terms, and concepts, and relations someone is at ease with... that someone guarantees:
- 1. to be able to talk about
- 2. to detect false things on the subject.
It's no longer a question of title, phD, career or else...
It could avoid issues like a pair of experts in Petrology Geology publishing a few paper denying Climate Change, then they create the "Syposium of the Consensus that everyone agrees Petrology Geologist understand Climate more than Climatologist" <- true fact, I just changed the name #agnotology
I think it is related: playing with knowledge that is a little too far from one's zone of expertise (as an Engineer that's what I do every day wrt Science)
If you have feed back on the idea, don't hesitate
Academic Freedom index:
- good are northern countries;
- worst is Saudi Arabia;
- Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero;
- Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrates bias.
Try it: https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/VariableGraph/
#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #academicFreedom #NL #university #research #Pakistan #India #France
"I was naive. I thought that the benefits of doing science would be self-evident. And I anticipated that our science—as people who look at the planet and see that it’s changing—would come under scrutiny and even attack because the implications are politically inconvenient. We’ve seen that before, and that’s what I expected. What I did not expect was that [the Trump administration] would go after pediatric cancer research first. That they would go after Parkinson’s research first. And they would go after vaccines, the greatest invention of humanity. And that has shocked me, the fact that science is under attack, not because its conclusions are necessarily politically inconvenient but because it is a way of telling the truth. That has been the most disorienting and frightening aspect of all of this."
An interview with climate scientist Dr Kate Marvel: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-climate-scientist-kate-marvel-just-resigned-from-nasa-heres-why/
Donc maintenant je ne "reconnais pas le caractère complotiste de ce que je dis" Bah tu devrais m'indiquer des ressources en #agnotology , faire des paralleles avec l'industrie du pétrole dont le but est de saccager toute critique de leur industrie, et donc des verts précisement:
I am more concerned that a philosopher is unable to define the word "race", because it is a NAUGHT concept in #genetics #biology about #human That's my huge HUGE concern I'm not a philosopher, nor epistemologist. But his tactics resemble frankly those of #agnotology concern: Smokescreen studies
What is the probability that American White Supremacist racists use science to spread non-sense, allowing #farright activists & journalists to say: oh look there is study that says "Black are less intelligent" Just like they did with success against #climatechange #agnotology = making of ignorance
Alondra Nelson giving a fascinating talk on Algorithmic #Agnotology @ #IASEAI @unesco in Paris. #IASEAI26 #Epistemology #AI #LLMs
I have been witness in early 2020 of Donald Trump saying repeatedly that: "CORONAVIRUS" was "THE NEW DEMOCRATS HOAX"
It was about a few weeks before #global #lockdown
#neofascism #fascism #technique #strategy #politics #politicalscience #agnotology #disinformation #propaganda
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iepyfmc7yhwwgbgeu4vc3vcx/post/3mewxymo7ns2t
Understood one thing tonight in the #antiscience fight For them: - Ignorant = to be unbiased - Knowing = to be biased - Lying = to be open & creative & exercising opinion liberty #agnotology #neofascim #fascism #journalism #history (if I polute #agnotology hashtag for US researchers: Just tell)
Currently reading
TIL that #agnotology is the study of deliberate, culturally cultivated ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of disinformation.
It's done: here we are
The USA are lying on governmental sites about the human origins of climate change
#climatechange
#climatedenial #disinformation #agnotology
#neofascism
#AMERICANFREESPEECHEIL !
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mgsd4sw4nfxjbrhxeecohrxa/post/3m7iwb25ybs25
In #agnotology they also mention the use of slogans like "Cigarettes of Freedom" that were inspired by paid pro-tobacco-industry actors Tobacco industry did this so as to break public debate on the danger of tobacco. Claiming that it was a loss of freedom to forbid or accuse cigarettes for cancer.
Writing and speaking can be used/mistreated/instumentalised/weaponised "not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" @ben
#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory #subjugate
“Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, in "A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"
#criticalTheory #communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #truth #wordsMatter #semiotics #Deleuze #Guattari #Capitalism #quote #quotes #FrenchTheory
"To say something factually correct is already to have an #opinion on what to do with it."
Lauréline #Fontaine: "In a society of law built since the end of the Middle Ages around the protection of trade and exchange, truth has progressively acquired the status of a social necessity: it excludes uncertainty and produces the trust necessary for the maintenance and development of exchanges."
"The category of truth in the social space is not - in fact - the object of a monopoly (including in a scientific community tightly bound around certain protocols intended to produce it): the category of #truth is a very liberal practice, or even neo-liberal to use a paradigm of analysis that has become commonplace today. It is the object of a form of permanent competition, depending on the means available to some and others to appropriate it or reveal it."
fr https://www.ledroitdelafontaine.fr/entretien-sur-la-verite-en-democratie/
#communication #media #knowledge #publicOpinion #epistemology #agnotology #rationalism #reason #intelligence #truth #wordsMatter #democracy