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Brief thread on "agnotology" and gun violence. 🧵

"Agnotology" is "the cultural production of ignorance."

Science historian Bob Proctor and linguist Iain Boal invented the term. It applies to tobacco and fossil fuels, but is useful for understanding the gun lobby, too.

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