"Climategate" and The Scientific Ethos

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ID5338225
AuthorsReiner Grundmann (0000-0003-0266-9296, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume38
Issue1
Pages67-93
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243911432318
OpenAlexW2161250263
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited27

In late 2009, e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia were released that showed some climate scientists in an unfavorable light. Soon this scandal was known as "Climategate" and a highly charged debate started to rage on blogs and in the mass media. Much of the debate has been about the question whether anthropogenic global warming was undermined by the revelations. But ethical issues, too, became part and parcel of the debate. This article aims to contribute to this debate, assessing the e-mail affair in the light of two normative analyses of science, one proposed by Robert Merton (and developed further by some of his followers), the second by a recent suggestion to use the concept of honest brokering in science policy interactions. On the basis of these analyses, different aspects of malpractice will be discussed and possible solutions will be suggested

Climate change · Environmental ethics · Ethos · Global warming · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Science and Climate Studies · Ecology

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