Against the Grain, for October 16, 2012 - 12:00pm
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Historian of science Robert Proctor, author of "Golden Holocaust," discusses why cigarettes may be the world's deadliest invention.
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one of the very best shows ever produed on this radio
i hope it will be used as a premium
i sent it around to everyone i know
hope they listen!- even if they continue to smoke, it has to have an impact
so many facets of the problem of cigarettes explored
It's surprising that Robert Proctor wanted to coin a word to describe the knowledge of ignorance and its production (he asked Iain Boal who came up with 'agnotology'). I say this because James Ferrier, a Scot, had used 'agnoiology' almost 150 years ago to denote this very thing.
In 1854 James Ferrier had published 'Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being', an almost 600 page study. Section 1 is 'The Epistemology, or Theory of Knowing'; section 2 its opposite, 'The Agnoiology, or Theory of Ignorance', 45 pages; & section 3, 'The Ontology, or Theory of Being'.