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| When Science goes Public: From Technical Arguments to Appeals to Authority | page 19-30 | |||
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Recent calls for increased public participation in technical decision-making have brought to the fore argumentation between scientists and citizens. In this paper, we examine what happens as arguments travel from the technical to the public sphere.
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Based on a case study of a U.S. debate over the net energy balance of corn-based ethanol, we show how the evidence-based technical arguments are transformed into appeals to expert authority.
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| keywords: argumentation, argument from expert opinion, appeal to authority, | |||
