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  title info:
    title: Ignorance unmasked
    sub title: essays in the new science of agnotology
  name:
    name part: Proctor, Robert
    name part: 1954-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schiebinger, Londa L.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 292 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: We live in an age of ignorance. This book offers a guide to how we got here-and how we might escape. From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions inhering in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology, the study of ignorance-can help us better grasp. Why don't we know what we don't know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome? Ignorance has countless agents and authors. It gets deliberately manufactured and widely disseminated. In a provocative set of essays, this book engages climate change and public health, algorithmic amplification of misinformation, deep fakes and data obsolescence, the origins of free market fundamentalism and gun industry deceptions, along with the ignorance produced by military trauma, sugar and meat agnotology, environmental malfeasance and the forgetting of the Nakba. It helps us better understand how and why knowledge gets erased, and how rectifying such ignorance can enlarge human liberties and planetary health.
  table of contents: Agnotology, 30 years in the making / Robert N. Proctor -- How the most important fact of global warming has been obscured / Benjamin Franta -- Preventing unwanted births can help mitigate climate change-while enlarging human liberties / Londa Schiebinger and Robert N. Proctor -- AI-fueled ignorance, confusion, and profit / Hany Farid -- On data loss and disappearance in digital societies / Nanna Bonde Thylstrup -- Law against knowledge : anti-epistemology / Peter Galison.
  note: edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
  classification: BD221 .I46 2025
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9781503643406
  identifier: 1503643409
  identifier: 9781503643956
  identifier: 1503643956
  identifier: 9781503643963
  identifier: 2025003036
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250201
    record change date: 20251124143414.8
    record identifier: in00005666448