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This attitude reminds the first, perhaps most obvious, of the four "coping strategies" on #uncertainty in the #SciencePolicyInterface, as discussed by @Jeroen_van_der_Sluijs [2]

"Monster-exorcists want to expel the monster. Uncertainty simply does not fit within symbolical order where #science is seen as the producer of authoritative objective #knowledge" [2]

Variant: "keeping the uncertainties in knowledge claims deliberately under the table because they do not fit a political agenda" [2]

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#References

[2] Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter, S.R., et al., 2007. Coupled human and natural systems. AMBIO 36, 639–649. https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[639:CHANS]2.0.CO;2

[3] Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter, S.R., et al., 2007. Complexity of coupled human and natural systems. Science 317, 1513–1516. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1144004

(Available free access versions:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=9748014925464765351

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=4395469514804190369 )

#DOI #CoupledHumanAndNaturalSystems #DeepUncertainty #PreciselyIncorrect #complexity #SciencePolicyInterface

Indeed worth rereading #Feynman

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

#SciencePolicyInterface: research should be uncensored regardless of the result

"If you don’t publish such a result, it seems to me you’re not giving scientific advice. You’re being used.
If your answer happens to come out in the direction the government or the politicians like, they can use it as an argument in their favor; if it comes out the other way, they don’t publish it at all.
That’s not giving scientific advice"

@AndreaSaltelli

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#References

[4] Markowitz, E.M., Shariff, A.F., 2012. Climate change and moral judgement. Nature Climate Change 2, 243–247. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1378
(free access versions: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=16185075099533110886 )

#DOI #psychology #SciencePolicyInterface #ScienceSocietyInterface #complexity #CognitiveBias #inaction #education #CognitiveLoad