Was “science” on the ballot?
Was “science” on the ballot?
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选票上有“科学”吗？
DOI：
10.1126/science.abf8762
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Jasanoff, Sheila
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作者：
Hilgartner, Stephen;Hurlbut, J. Benjamin;Jasanoff, Sheila
2020年11月7日，在卡玛拉·哈里斯和乔·拜登开始胜利演讲之前，舞台两侧的巨大屏幕宣布：“人民选择了科学。然而，近7400万美国人，几乎一半的选民，投票给唐纳德特朗普，因此可能不会选择科学。杰出的科学家断言“科学在选票上”，并哀叹“美国很大一部分人不想要科学”（1）。但在对失去对科学的信任感到绝望之前，我们应该确定我们所担心的问题是正确的。“科学”真的在选票上吗？把美国公民分为支持科学和反科学的阵营有用吗？反科学的标签是否服务于协商民主的目的？这些问题的答案显然是否定的。正确的诊断对于修复美国科学与社会关系的糟糕状况至关重要。
On 7 November 2020, moments before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden began their victory speeches, giant screens flanking the stage proclaimed, “The people have chosen science.” Yet, nearly 74 million Americans, almost half the voters, had cast their ballots for Donald Trump, thereby presumably not choosing science. Prominent scientists asserted that “science was on the ballot” and lamented that “a significant portion of America doesn't want science” (1). But before despairing at the loss of trust in science, we should be sure we are worrying about the right problem. Was “science” really on the ballot? Is it useful to imagine U.S. citizens as divided into pro-science and anti-science camps? Does the label antiscience serve the purposes of deliberative democracy? The answer to these questions is plainly no. A correct diagnosis is essential to repairing the sorry state of science-society relations in the United States.