agnatology

Noun

agnotology (uncountable)

1. The study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.
   • Our interest here, though, is less in remediation than in what Nancy Tuana has called the "liberatory moment"—which brings us to a more subtle form of agnatology2005, Robert Proctor, Londa L. Schiebinger, Agnotology: the making and unmaking of ignorance, page 6