“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

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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 ?

@BenjaminHan

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