Abstract: Distance is a prerequisite for the production of scientific, i.e. certified, trusted knowledge. The paper analyzes how the distance of science to politics and the media is eroded and instead a closer coupling is created by pressures to legitimate the scientific enterprise in a mass democracy. This loss of distance may have repercussions for the insitution of science.
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Weingart, P. (2001). The Loss of Distance: Science in Transition (pp. 167–184). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2956-7_11
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