Agnotology
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Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
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See also
- Junk science
- Obscurantism
- Politics of global warming
- The Republican War on Science
- Merchants of Doubt
- Doubt is Their Product
- Fear, uncertainty and doubt, or simply 'FUD', a disinformation technique using the appeal to fear
- Fnord
- Subvertising
- The Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes
- cognitive dissonance is a social psychology theory that may explain the ease of maintaining ignorance (because people are driven to ignore conflicting evidence) and which also provides clues to how to bring about knowledge (perhaps by forcing the learner to reconcile reality with long-held, though inaccurate beliefs)
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