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Impacts of disqualification by scientists in an environmental dispute

Rouchier, Juliette (2020), Impacts of disqualification by scientists in an environmental dispute. https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/20920

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Document de travail / Working paper
External document link
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02434776
Date
2020
Series title
Preprint Lamsade
Published in
Paris
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Author(s)
Rouchier, Juliette cc
Laboratoire d'analyse et modélisation de systèmes pour l'aide à la décision [LAMSADE]
Abstract (EN)
This paper describes the place of disqualification in an environmental dispute in which scientists, although supposedly representing neutrality and reason, express publicly their opinion in place of constructed knowledge. This has an impact in terms of trust in science for the general public, can destroy the possibility to do field work, especially when the problem under study (here a pollution issue) is strongly linked to scientific activity, but can even generate a serious delay in a political process. The disqualification of others being very often observed in academics, an institution should be designed to solve disqualification issues with civility.
Subjects / Keywords
environment; long-term policy; policy analytics; French academics; avoidance; disqualification