Already before the COVID-19 pandemic, negotiations about scientific evidence were intensifying in the public sphere. Climate policy and global warming scepticism, anti-vaccine movements and radio frequency
Evidence is a tremendously important, but at the same time heavily contested resource in democratically constituted knowledge societies; for establishing claims of validity, resolving conflicts, and
Sarah Ehlers has been awarded the Forschungspreis
Karin Zachmann has written the article “Relativ sicher? Das Kernkraftrisiko als Herausforderung der Fürsorgediktatur der DDR” (Relatively safe? The nuclear power risk as a challenge to
In the latest edition of M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft Jahrgang 68(1-2), 2020, Sabrina H. Kessler has reviewed the publication from Karin Zachmann and Sarah Ehlers, Wissen
„Eine neue Autorität der Wissenschaften? Expertise, Evidenz und der gesellschaftliche Status der Wissenschaften in der Covid-19-Pandemie“
(A new authority of
A new article by Stefan Esselborn and Karin Zachmann has been published in History and Technology 2020 (36): 129-164, titled “Nuclear safety by numbers. Probabilistic risk analysis as
Evidence practices are more relevant than ever. During the current Corona crisis in particular, the question
