NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Review Article, Agnotology, Fossil Fuel

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1760
• Professor: Darrin Durant

Document Summary

Part 3 fossil fuel industry, anthropogenic (human caused) climate change, and doubt. Experts/publics, risk (individual vs. collective), certainty, skepticism, doubt (how can we trust what your saying is true, and should we believe it). Once you"ve written something in a peer review journal you are a contributory experts. Vocabulary: conflict of interest [multiple interests], credibility; prestige (is there a difference?) [one is more politically influential - prestige], replication (of findings) [very important for any science truth should be able to be replicated], Ipcc [international panel on climate change peer reviewed policy making], consensus [nature of consensus climate change skeptics go after this] Understanding peer review helps reveal organization of science community. Peer review evolved over hundreds of years, since 1660. Basically peer review is scrutiny of a (wanna be) expert"s publications by other experts. Need to appreciate: scientists (academics) not paid for authorship. Notion of different currencies (capitals) ins science (or life): money, trustworthiness/credibility, prestige.