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Corporations’ use and misuse of evidence to influence health policy: a case study of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2019
Background Sugar sweetened beverages (SSB) are a major source of sugar in the diet. Although trends in consumption vary across regions, in many countries, particularly LMICs, their consumption continues to increase.
Gary Jonas Fooks   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge" : Weiß Sherlock Holmes, was er tut? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"His ignorance", so lesen wir im zweiten Kapitel von Conan Doyles 'A Study in Scarlet', das den Titel "Science of Deduction" trägt, "his ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge".
Wirth, Uwe
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The legitimation crisis of democracy: emancipatory politics, the environmental state and the glass ceiling to socio-ecological transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The democratic legitimation imperativeof the modern state has been conceptualised as the barrier that stops the environmental state from developing into a green or eco-state–and thus as the glass ceiling to a socio-ecological transformation of capitalist
Blühdorn, Ingolfur
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What Might International Development Assistance Be Able to Tell Us About Contemporary "Policy Government" in Developed Countries? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article examines international development assistance—aid. Donors assert that experts possess predictive knowledge and project belief in such knowledge into organizational form—the Logical Framework Approach. While such beliefs lack predictive power,
Fforde, Adam
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An Interview with Michael Betancourt, author of Agnotology & Crisis in Digital Capitalism

open access: yesNANO, 2015
Sean Scanlan, NANO's editor, interviews artist, curator, art historian and critical theorist Michael Betancourt to discuss the nature of agnotology, a term that means the “creation of uncertainty and ambivalent ‘fact’; it is a competitive tool ...
Sean Scanlan, Michael Betancourt
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Data Shadows: Knowledge, Openness and Absence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record.This editorial critically engages with the understanding of openness by attending to how notions of presence and absence come bundled
Davies, GF, Leonelli, S, Rappert, B
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Uncertain Knowledge: The Medicalisation of Intersex People and the Production of Ignorance

open access: yesSocial Sciences
Ignorance is produced through mechanisms related to power relations and socio-cultural context. This article examines whether the theoretical conceptualisation of agnotology may be useful when exploring intersex and the way it has been erased socially ...
Michal Raz
doaj   +1 more source

The role of pseudo-cognitive authorities and self-deception in the dissemination of fake news

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2019
This paper draws together insights from a variety of fields (including philosophy, psychology, information studies, sociology, politics, and media studies) to synthesize insight into why fake news is created, disseminated, sustained and authorized so as ...
Froehlich Thomas J.
doaj   +1 more source

From the 1930 International Johannesburg conference on silicosis, to “tables” of occupational diseases, France, 2000 onward: A comparative reading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Through the concept of “thought collectives” in particular, Ludwik Fleck was a pioneer in demonstrating how much scientific knowledge is inherently made up of social and historical material.
Braunstein   +16 more
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