The scientific community is profoundly uncomfortable with the storm of political controversy that climate research is attracting. What’s going on?
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Some things can’t be said easily in polite company. They cause offence or stir up intense anxiety. Where one might expect a conversation, what actually occurs is what the sociologist Eviator Zerubavel calls a ‘socially constructed silence.’
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