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A fact from Agnotology appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/August.

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Add Science Wars under "See Also"

Suggest adding Science Wars to the list in "See Also" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars This is certainly an example of Agnotology. Tony (talk) 14:56, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stamford or Stanford?

Was the conference mentioned really at Stamford University, Bangladesh, or was it at Stanford University, California? Colonies Chris 12:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agnotology

The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger

2008 312 pp.

1 table, 15 illustrations.

ISBN: 9780804756525

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780804759014

Stanford University Press — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.128.250.141 (talk) 02:04, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I have reviewed this article and read almost all of its references. Though at first skeptical, I have come around to the opinion that we are observing the birth of a new and very significant line of research. It touches upon epistemology, political science, the history of science, the sociology of science, and historiography. Several books have been written about Agnotology, though their titles lack this label, and there has been at least one academic conference on the subject. I think this rapidly evolving academic discipline needs to be monitored by Wikipedia, through the medium of this article and others. — Aetheling (talk) 14:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC).[reply]

It seems the term Agnotology could well be applied to the efforts to downplay Anthropogenic Global Warming as well -- and for a laugh, the successes of the Church of Scientology. 71.48.252.24 (talk) 02:47, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, the term Agnotology seems to apply to efforts to promote claims that AGW theory is supported by a "consensus" of scientists - when a recent study found that only 40 out of 12,000 peer-reviewed studies actually support the theory:

Agnotology is the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead [1]

How can we get Wikipedia to address the conflict between those who say that AGW consensus is 97% and those who say that it's only 0.3%? --Uncle Ed (talk) 16:55, 6 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Monckton is a ranting ideologue, not a scientist, and anything written by him is immediately suspect. Is there a source for this sort of claim that is not coauthored by Lord Monckton?.--greenrd (talk) 12:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Coined?

According to the book, "Iain Boal came up with the term". https://books.google.ca/books?id=qp7rKT56fw0C&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=agnotology+Iain+Boal+came+up+with+the+term

Keith McClary (talk) 02:15, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The article is in the category "2000s neologisms", but in the article it says the term was first coined in 1995 by Robert N. Proctor. -- Gebu (talk) 07:24, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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+The article is in the category "2000s neologisms", but in the article it says the term was first coined in 1995 by [[Robert N. Proctor]]. -- [[User:Gebu|Gebu]] ([[User talk:Gebu|talk]]) 07:24, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
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