Building Agnotology

Learning and Teaching Climate Science: The Perils of Consensus Knowledge Using Agnotology

Agnotology has been defined in a variety of ways including ‘‘the study of ignorance and its cultural production’’ and ‘‘the study of how and why ignorance or misunderstanding exists.’’ More recently, however, it has been posited that agnotology should be used in the teaching of climate change science. But rather than use agnotology to enhance an understanding of the complicated nature of the co...

Medical Experts and Agnotology in the Fumes Controversy of the Huelva Copper Mines (1888–1890)

Huelva's copper mines (Spain) have been active for centuries but in the second half of the nineteenth century extractive activities in Riotinto, Tharsis, and other mines in the region were intensified in order to reach world leadership. The method used in these mines for copper extraction from low grade ores generated continuous emissions of fumes that were extremely controversial. The inhabita...

Agnotology and exotic abortifacients: the cultural production of ignorance in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Interactive comment on “Agnotology: learning from mistakes” by R. E. Benestad et al

This comment contains a response to Benestad et al. (2013) where the authors critique a set of papers that they dislike and make a number of unjustified accusations toward their authors. I am going to demonstrate that, despite their “good intentions”, Benestad et al. (2013) is filled with misconceptions and/or falsehoods, and with severe mathematical and physical errors. In brief, this paper is...

Towards Green Building: Sustainability Approach in Building Industrialization

Building construction challenge, in recent years, is the reduction of social, economical and environmentalimpacts along with economical nature and increasing life quality, as here sustainable construction is important. Pre-fabrication and industrialization are referred as a solution of sustainable construction due to some of its main characteristics consisting of many sustainability aspects. Du...