SCIE 403 Study Guide - Final Guide: False Balance, Intercultural Competence, Citizen Science
14 Jan 2015
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List and describe three credibility tactics used by aids activists in challenging mainstream scientific approaches to running clinical trials. Cultural competence: learning the language of medicine, reflexive scientisation. Political representation: legitimate, organized voice of the people, from various groups. Linking methodological arguments to moral arguments: draw from different credibility domains, assuming risk. Taking sides in preexisting debates: pragmatic and fastidious research (feinstein, Need to desciribe further: define the concept of false balance as described by dixon & clarke and discuss how it has influenced the trajectory of controversy over the mmr vaccine-autism controversy. Occurs when a perspective supported by an overwhelming amount of evidence is presented alongside others with less/no support and context where the strength of the evidence lies is excluded. False balance can lead to a perception of a divide readers think that experts are in disagreement: define scientific boundary work as discussed in the eden et al. article.
