2016/09/21 by Sascha Dickel · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Decision Sciences · Engineering · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration #Professionalization #Argument (complex analysis) #Institution #Science communication #Engineering ethics #History of science #Sociology #Political science #Epistemology #Environmental ethics #Social science #Science education #Engineering #Law #Biology #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.22323/2.15050303
openalex publication_date 2016/09/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Peter Weingart and Lars Guenther suggest that the public's trust in science has become endangered due to a new ecology of science communication. An implicit theoretical base of their argument is that the integrity of science as an institution depends on the integrity of science as a profession. My comment aims to reconstruct and question this specific institutional understanding of science. I argue that rust in technologies of knowledge production might be a potential equivalent to trust in professions.