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title="Scientist">scientists</a>. It includes many "<a href="/wiki/Working_group" title="Working group">sub-communities</a>" working on particular scientific fields, and within particular institutions; interdisciplinary and cross-institutional activities are also significant. <a href="/wiki/Objectivity_(philosophy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Objectivity (philosophy)">Objectivity</a> is expected to be achieved by the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a>. <a href="/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review">Peer review</a>, through discussion and debate within journals and conferences, assists in this objectivity by maintaining the quality of research methodology and interpretation of results.<sup id="cite_ref-SCMet_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCMet-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History_of_scientific_communities"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History of scientific communities</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Membership,_status_and_interactions"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Membership, status and interactions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Speaking_for_the_scientific_community"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Speaking for the scientific community</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Political_controversies"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Political controversies</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="History_of_scientific_communities">History of scientific communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Scientific_community&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of scientific communities" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_science" title="History of science">History of science</a></div> <p>The eighteenth century had some societies made up of men who studied nature, also known as <a href="/wiki/Natural_philosophy" title="Natural philosophy">natural philosophers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_history" title="Natural history">natural historians</a>, which included even amateurs. As such these societies were more like local clubs and groups with diverse interests than actual scientific communities, which usually had interests on specialized disciplines.<sup id="cite_ref-Cahan_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cahan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though there were a few older societies of men who studied nature such as the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_London" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Society of London">Royal Society of London</a>, the concept of scientific communities emerged in the second half of the 19th century, not before, because it was in this century that the language of modern science emerged, the professionalization of science occurred, specialized institutions were created, and the specialization of scientific disciplines and fields occurred.<sup id="cite_ref-Cahan_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cahan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For instance, the term <i><a href="/wiki/Scientist" title="Scientist">scientist</a></i> was first coined by the naturalist-theologian <a href="/wiki/William_Whewell" title="William Whewell">William Whewell</a> in 1834 and the wider acceptance of the term along with the growth of specialized societies allowed for researchers to see themselves as a part of a wider imagined community, similar to the concept of nationhood.<sup id="cite_ref-Cahan_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cahan-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Membership,_status_and_interactions"><span id="Membership.2C_status_and_interactions"></span>Membership, status and interactions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Scientific_community&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Membership, status and interactions" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-halign-right noresize" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg/300px-MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="167" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="790" data-file-height="439" usemap="#ImageMap_2dee5290e943a850" resource="/wiki/File:MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 300px;height: 167px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg/300px-MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg" data-width="300" data-height="167" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg/450px-MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg/600px-MenOfScience1807ZobelAndWalker.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element" data-usemap="#ImageMap_2dee5290e943a850"> </span></span><map name="ImageMap_2dee5290e943a850"><area href="/wiki/John_Leslie_(physicist)" shape="circle" coords="13,73,3" alt="Leslie - 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Electric telegraph"><area href="/wiki/Charles_Stanhope,_3rd_Earl_Stanhope" shape="circle" coords="266,89,8" alt="Stanhope - Inventor" title="Stanhope - Inventor"><area href="#Victuallers" shape="rect" coords="0,0,910,582" alt="Use your cursor to explore (or Click icon to enlarge)" title="Use your cursor to explore (or Click icon to enlarge)"></map><figcaption>Distinguished Men of Science.<sup id="cite_ref-npg_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-npg-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Use the cursor to see who is who.<sup id="cite_ref-key_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-key-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Membership in the community is generally, but not exclusively, a function of <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Employment" title="Employment">employment status</a>, research activity and <a href="/wiki/Research_institute" title="Research institute">institutional affiliation</a>. <a href="/wiki/Achieved_status" title="Achieved status">Status</a> within the community is highly correlated with <a href="/wiki/Academic_publishing" title="Academic publishing">publication record</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also depends on the status within the institution and the status of the institution.<sup id="cite_ref-tandfonline.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tandfonline.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Researchers can hold roles of different degrees of influence inside the scientific community. Researchers of a stronger influence can act as mentors for early career researchers and steer the direction of research in the community like agenda setters.<sup id="cite_ref-tandfonline.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tandfonline.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scientists are usually trained in <a href="/wiki/Academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academia">academia</a> through <a href="/wiki/University" title="University">universities</a>. As such, <a href="/wiki/Academic_degree" title="Academic degree">degrees</a> in the relevant scientific sub-disciplines are often considered prerequisites in the relevant community. In particular, the <a href="/wiki/PhD" class="mw-redirect" title="PhD">PhD</a> with its <a href="/wiki/Doctoral_dissertation" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctoral dissertation">research requirements</a> functions as a marker of being an important integrator into the community, though continued membership is dependent on maintaining connections to other researchers through publication, technical contributions, and <a href="/wiki/Scientific_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific conference">conferences</a>. After obtaining a PhD an academic scientist may continue through being on an academic position, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Postdoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Postdoc">post-doctoral fellowships</a> and onto <a href="/wiki/Professor" title="Professor">professorships</a>. Other scientists make contributions to the scientific community in alternate ways such as in <a href="/wiki/Private_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Private industry">industry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tanks</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>. </p><p>Members of the same community do not need to work together.<sup id="cite_ref-SCMet_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SCMet-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Communication between the members is established by disseminating research work and hypotheses through articles in <a href="/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review">peer reviewed</a> <a href="/wiki/Scientific_journals" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific journals">journals</a>, or by attending <a href="/wiki/Academic_conference" title="Academic conference">conferences</a> where new research is presented and ideas exchanged and discussed. There are also many informal methods of communication of scientific work and results as well. And many in a coherent community may actually <i>not</i> communicate all of their work with one another, for various professional reasons. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Speaking_for_the_scientific_community">Speaking for the scientific community</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Scientific_community&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Speaking for the scientific community" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Solvay_conference_1927.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solvay_conference_1927.jpg/250px-Solvay_conference_1927.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="181" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2171"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 250px;height: 181px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solvay_conference_1927.jpg/250px-Solvay_conference_1927.jpg" data-width="250" data-height="181" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solvay_conference_1927.jpg/375px-Solvay_conference_1927.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solvay_conference_1927.jpg/500px-Solvay_conference_1927.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Solvay_Conference" title="Solvay Conference">Solvay Conference</a> of 1927, with prominent physicists such as <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Planck" title="Max Planck">Max Planck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Curie" title="Marie Curie">Marie Curie</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dirac" title="Paul Dirac">Paul Dirac</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Unlike in previous centuries when the community of scholars were all members of few <a href="/wiki/Learned_society" title="Learned society">learned societies</a> and similar institutions, there are no singular bodies or individuals which can be said today to speak for all science or all scientists. This is partly due to the specialized training most scientists receive in very few fields. As a result, many would lack expertise in all the other fields of the sciences. For instance, due to the increasing complexity of information and specialization of scientists, most of the cutting-edge research today is done by well funded groups of scientists, rather than individuals.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, there are still multiple societies and academies in many countries which help consolidate some opinions and research to help guide public discussions on matters of policy and government-funded research. For example, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>' <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> (NAS) and <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> sometimes act as surrogates when the opinions of the scientific community need to be ascertained by <a href="/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy">policy makers</a> or the national <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>, but the statements of the National Academy of Science or the Royal Society are not binding on scientists nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of every scientist in a given community since membership is often exclusive, their commissions are explicitly focused on serving their governments, and they have never "shown systematic interest in what rank-and-file scientists think about scientific matters".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Exclusivity of membership in these types of organizations can be seen in their election processes in which only existing members can officially nominate others for candidacy of membership.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is very unusual for organizations like the National Academy of Science to engage in external research projects since they normally focus on preparing scientific reports for government agencies.<sup id="cite_ref-US_Academy_uncharted_waters_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_Academy_uncharted_waters-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An example of how rarely the NAS engages in external and active research can be seen in its struggle to prepare and overcome hurdles, due to its lack of experience in coordinating research grants and major research programs on the environment and health.<sup id="cite_ref-US_Academy_uncharted_waters_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_Academy_uncharted_waters-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nevertheless, general <a href="/wiki/Scientific_consensus" title="Scientific consensus">scientific consensus</a> is a concept which is often referred to when dealing with questions that can be subject to <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific methodology</a>. While the consensus opinion of the community is not always easy to ascertain or fix due to paradigm shifting, generally the standards and utility of the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_method" title="Scientific method">scientific method</a> have tended to ensure, to some degree, that scientists agree on some general corpus of <a href="/wiki/Fact" title="Fact">facts</a> explicated by <a href="/wiki/Scientific_theory" title="Scientific theory">scientific theory</a> while rejecting some ideas which run counter to this realization. The concept of scientific consensus is very important to science pedagogy, the evaluation of new ideas, and research funding. Sometimes it is argued that there is a <a href="/wiki/Closed_shop" title="Closed shop">closed shop</a> <a href="/wiki/Bias" title="Bias">bias</a> within the scientific community toward new ideas. <a href="/wiki/Protoscience" title="Protoscience">Protoscience</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fringe_science" title="Fringe science">fringe science</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a> have been topics that discuss demarcation problems. In response to this some non-consensus claims <a href="/wiki/Scientific_skepticism" title="Scientific skepticism">skeptical organizations</a>, not research institutions, have devoted considerable amounts of time and money contesting ideas which run counter to general agreement on a particular topic. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">Philosophers of science</a> argue over the <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemological</a> limits of such a consensus and some, including <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn" title="Thomas Kuhn">Thomas Kuhn</a>, have pointed to the existence of <a href="/wiki/Scientific_Revolution" title="Scientific Revolution">scientific revolutions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_science" title="History of science">history of science</a> as being an important indication that scientific consensus can, at times, be wrong. Nevertheless, the sheer explanatory power of science in its ability to make <a href="/wiki/Accuracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Accuracy">accurate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision" title="Accuracy and precision">precise</a> predictions and aid in the design and <a href="/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering">engineering</a> of new <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> has ensconced "science" and, by proxy, the opinions of the scientific community as a highly respected form of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> both in the <a href="/wiki/Academia" class="mw-redirect" title="Academia">academy</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Popular_culture" title="Popular culture">popular culture</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_controversies">Political controversies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Scientific_community&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political controversies" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg/220px-Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="573" data-file-height="382"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 147px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg/220px-Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="147" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg/330px-Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg/440px-Clinton%261998NobelLaureates.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a><figcaption>President Clinton meets the 1998 U.S. <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> winners in the White House</figcaption></figure> <p>The high regard with which scientific results are held in Western society has caused a number of <a href="/wiki/Politicization_of_science" title="Politicization of science">political controversies over scientific subjects</a> to arise. An alleged <a href="/wiki/Conflict_thesis" title="Conflict thesis">conflict thesis</a> proposed in the 19th century between <a href="/wiki/Religion_and_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion and science">religion and science</a> has been cited by some as representative of a struggle between tradition and substantial change and <a href="/wiki/Faith_and_reason" class="mw-redirect" title="Faith and reason">faith and reason</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. A popular example used to support this thesis is when <a href="/wiki/Galileo" class="mw-redirect" title="Galileo">Galileo</a> was tried before the <a href="/wiki/Inquisition" title="Inquisition">Inquisition</a> concerning the heliocentric model.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The persecution began after Pope Urban VIII permitted Galileo to write about the Copernican model. Galileo had used arguments from the Pope and put them in the voice of the simpleton in the work "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" which caused great offense to him.<sup id="cite_ref-Pope_Urban_VIII_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pope_Urban_VIII-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even though many historians of science have discredited the conflict thesis<sup id="cite_ref-sci_rel_hist_intro_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sci_rel_hist_intro-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it still remains a popular belief among many including some scientists. In more recent times, the <a href="/wiki/Creation%E2%80%93evolution_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Creation–evolution controversy">creation–evolution controversy</a> has resulted in many <a href="/wiki/Creationism" title="Creationism">religious believers in a supernatural creation</a> to challenge some <a href="/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)" title="Naturalism (philosophy)">naturalistic</a> assumptions that have been proposed in some of the branches of <a href="/wiki/Scientific" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific">scientific</a> fields such as <a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_biology" title="Evolutionary biology">evolutionary biology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>. Although the dichotomy seems to be of a different outlook from a <a href="/wiki/Continental_Europe" title="Continental Europe">Continental European</a> perspective, it does exist. The <a href="/wiki/Vienna_Circle" title="Vienna Circle">Vienna Circle</a>, for instance, had a paramount (i.e. symbolic) influence on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Semiotic_regime&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Semiotic regime (page does not exist)">semiotic regime</a> represented by the Scientific <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">Community</a> in Europe. </p><p>In the decades following <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, some were convinced that <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power" title="Nuclear power">nuclear power</a> would solve the pending <a href="/wiki/Energy_crisis" title="Energy crisis">energy crisis</a> by providing energy at low cost. This advocacy led to the construction of many <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_power_plants" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear power plants">nuclear power plants</a>, but was also accompanied by a global political movement opposed to nuclear power due to safety concerns and associations of the technology with <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a>. Mass protests in the United States and <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> during the 1970s and 1980s along with the disasters of <a href="/wiki/Chernobyl" title="Chernobyl">Chernobyl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident" title="Three Mile Island accident">Three Mile Island</a> led to a decline in nuclear power plant construction. </p><p>In the last decades or so, both <a href="/wiki/Global_warming_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming controversy">global warming</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy" title="Stem cell controversy">stem cells</a> have placed the opinions of the scientific community in the forefront of political debate. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" 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href="/wiki/Scientific_consensus" title="Scientific consensus">Scientific consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_communication" title="Scientific communication">Scientific communication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extended_peer_community" title="Extended peer community">Extended peer community</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Scientific_community&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <style 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Haas">Haas, Peter M.</a> (Winter 1992). "Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination". <i><a href="/wiki/International_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="International Organization">International Organization</a></i>. <b>46</b> (1): 1–35. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS0020818300001442">10.1017/S0020818300001442</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145360263">145360263</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Organization&rft.atitle=Introduction%3A+epistemic+communities+and+international+policy+coordination&rft.ssn=winter&rft.volume=46&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=1-35&rft.date=1992&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS0020818300001442&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A145360263%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Haas&rft.aufirst=Peter+M.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScientific+community" class="Z3988"></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060224141451/http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~olau/ir/archive/haa2.pdf">Pdf.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2015.1060704">Höhle, Ester</a> (2015). 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