Robert N. Proctor
American historian
Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954) is an American historian of science. He is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.[1] In 1999, he was the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. He was a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University.
Proctor made the word "agnotology". Agnotology means writing untrue or misleading information about scientific data.[2][3]
References
change- ↑ "Stanford History Department : Robert N. Proctor". Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2007-03-19. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
- ↑ Arenson, Karen W (2006-08-22). "What Organizations Don't Want to Know Can Hurt". New York Times.
'there is a lot more protectiveness than there used to be,' said Dr.Proctor, who is shaping a new field, the study of ignorance, which he calls agnotology. 'It is often safer not to know.'
- ↑ Kreye, Andrian (2007). "We Will Overcome Agnotology (The Cultural Production Of Ignorance)". The Edge World Question Center 2007. Edge Foundation. p. 6. Retrieved 2007-08-12.
This is about a society's choice between listening to science and falling prey to what Stanford science historian Robert N. Proctor calls agnotology (the cultural production of ignorance)
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