‘Agnotology’: The Study of Ignorance

Our ways of knowing can be corrupted

Baby in hat by esudroff from Pixabay

We begin in ignorance when we are born. Then — because human eyes focus on what we look at, and for any number of other reasons — “we ignore almost everything. We have the focus of a predator and not the eternal watchfulness of prey.”

So said Prof. Robert Proctor, co-editor of Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of…