Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at t
Why trust science? Why should science have more authority than "other ways of knowing?" Is science merely a social construct? Or even worse: a tool of oppressio
Why should we trust scientists? What happens to trust when scientists are seduced by politics, religion, money or glory? Public trust in scientists may be wanin
Scientists regularly employ historical narrative as a rhetorical tool in their communication of science, yet there's been little reflection on its effects withi
Big questions and issues arise about the role of the scientific life in our society and in our world. These have to do with trusting science at all, or with the