期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2018
卷号:115
期号:11
页码:2620-2627
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1708276114
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:After documenting the existence and exploring some implications of three alternative news narratives about science and its challenges, this essay outlines ways in which those who communicate science can more accurately convey its investigatory process, self-correcting norms, and remedial actions, without in the process legitimizing an unwarranted “science is broken/in crisis” narrative. The three storylines are: ( i ) quest discovery, which features scientists producing knowledge through an honorable journey; ( ii ) counterfeit quest discovery, which centers on an individual or group of scientists producing a spurious finding through a dishonorable one; and ( iii ) a systemic problem structure, which suggests that some of the practices that protect science are broken, or worse, that science is no longer self-correcting or in crisis.