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Nature 450, 33 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450033a; Published online 31 October 2007
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Full-Professor of Heart and Thoracic Surgery (W3) (f / m)
- Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
- Jena Germany
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- University of Texas
- Austin TX United States
Science & Politics Technologies of humility
Sheila Jasanoff1
- Sheila Jasanoff is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Abstract
Researchers and policy-makers need ways for accommodating the partiality of scientific knowledge and for acting under the inevitable uncertainty it holds.
The great mystery of modernity is that we think of certainty as an attainable state. Uncertainty has become the threat to collective action, the disease that knowledge must cure.
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