Sociology of Knowledge

Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger's anthology coining 'agnotology' — the study of how ignorance is deliberately manufactured. The tobacco industry's decades-long campaign to cast doubt on smoking-cancer links is the paradigm case: ignorance isn't a natural state but something that can be produced, maintained, and deployed as a political tool.