Scientists, Politics, and the Rhetoric of Public Controversy

Pamela Pietrucci is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Leah Ceccarelli is Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, in Seattle, USA.

• Section I: Scientist Citizens.- Chapter 1: We Feel That It Is No Longer Possible to Remain Uninvolved”: A Rhetorical History of the Union of Concerned Scientists.- Chapter 2: What Do We Want? Evidence-Based Claims! When Do We Want It? After Peer Review!: Advocacy and Activism in the March for Science.- Chapter 3: Publish and/or Perish: Scientific Journal Commentary for Social Action in the Climate and Ecological Emergency.- Chapter 4: Activism in Science: Saying No to the Objectionable Appropriation of Research.- Chapter 5: Reflections on a Scientist’s Public Engagement: A Dialogue with Roberto Burioni.- Section II: Public Engagement with Science.- Chapter 6: Prodused ethos: Trust, ethos, and expertise in Facebook fan sites for health experts.- Chapter 7: Vituperation and Expert Ethos in Public Science: Censure of Public Health Officials in the COVID-19 Era.- Chapter 8: The Bro as Disingenuous Scientist Citizen.- Chapter 9: Vigilante Pseudoscience in a Science Denialist Data Dashboard.- Chapter 10: The Cook Inlet Beluga Whale: Global Whaling, Oppositional Activism, and Community Science.- Chapter 11: Balancing Acts: Asymmetries of Character and Community.