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Families of climate scepticism I: faulty science?
April 12, 2013
At last week’s British Sociological Association conference, I presented some initial observations from my research on climate change scepticism. My starting point was that climate change scepticism - or as it is often inaccurately described, denial - is not monolithic. Those people typically labelled as sceptics vary in their arguments. Sometimes may employ many different arguments, some may focus on …
Science, politics and the new scepticism
October 14, 2012
While I blogged on MSP a couple of times while finishing up my thesis on local and regional climate policy, I have now started on the programme full time as a Research Fellow. My project has a working title of Science, politics and scepticism in the age of new media, and aims to “map the …
Atoms are not people: comparing the natural and social sciences
May 18, 2012
Following a Twitter debate this week on the utility of social sciences cf. natural sciences as a basis for public policy (see the above screenshot for some of the comments), I thought it might be time for a preliminary sketch of the differences between these two (very) broad areas of knowledge. Is social science a …
The magic of science
March 23, 2012
Guest post by Dr Kate Roach, former member of the Institute for Science and Society, now writer and public engagement researcher (kr@kateroach.net) Defining science A recent invitation on twitter to define science, #scidef, has brought forth quite a number of mysterious or magically inclined interpretations. For @TripOnEgo science is an: “intrigue-inspired investigation, commanded by moral …
MSP bookmarks
- Seeing Like a Geek: the problem with #opendata June 19, 2013
- G8 commitment puts open data on the global agenda for growth - Press releases - Inside Government - GOV.UK June 19, 2013
- Annual Lecture 2013: The Public Value of the Social Sciences - Eventbrite June 17, 2013
- Open government and climate change: Help us identify case studies | Involve June 17, 2013
- Clive Barnett on doing public things June 15, 2013
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