both “engagement” and“understanding” as a way to characterize public participation insocial science – as opposed to natural … science – knowledgediscussions.[...] …

During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science … and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … healthy participatory democracy under such conditions meant keeping the voting public involved – and science popularisation …

systems. Ideas from metrology, and from the philosophy and sociology of science, are used to analyse various attempts to …

Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from … the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science …

and experience, theexperimental accounts from agricultural science. The content of hisarguments, and his derivation of the …