Max Weber’s ‘Inconvenient Facts’ and Contemporary Studies of Public Science Communication

Social Epistemology 34 (2):130-141 (2020)
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ABSTRACTIn his text ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’, Max Weber associates the understanding of science as a vocation with the scientist’s ability to present the audience with ‘inconvenient facts’. He argu...

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