Part1: Theoretical Framing: Evidence Critique and Contestation
1. What is Scientific Criticism for? Some Philosophical Reflections on Criticism and Evidence within the Scientific Ethos Elif Ozmen and Daniel Fuger 2. Questioning Evidence: Three Modes of Contestation Eva Barlosius and Eva Ruffing
Part2: Striving for Diverse Evidence: Ecological and Biological Evidence Critique
3. How Many Plots Can the Data Hold? Reconciling Stories and Evidence in Evolutionary Biology Martha Kenney 4. Rethinking Evidence Practices for Environmental Decision-Making in the Anthropocene. What Can We Learn from Invasive Species Research and Policy? Christoph Kueffer
Part3: Questioning the Criteria for Evidence: Health Sciences
5. Surgical Caps and Trouble with Evidence. Epistemology and Ethics of Perioperative Hygiene Measures Saana Jukola and Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio 6. Negotiating Consensus for Diverging Evidence. An Application of the Explanatory Approach to Guidelines for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Fredrik Andersen, Yngve Herikstad, Anders Dechsling and Stefan Sutterlin
Part4: Challenging Academic Evidence: Counter Science, Citizen Science and Environmental Activism
7. Evidence against the “Nuclear State”. Contesting Technoscience through Gegenwissenschaft in the 1970s and 1980s Stefan Esselborn and Karin Zachmann 8. Appropriating Evidence. Scientific Criticism and Environmental Activism in the Global Pesticide Controversy during the 1970s and 1980s Sarah Ehlers 9. Participation as Evidence Contestation. The Ambiguous Balance of Social and Epistemic Involvement through Citizen Science Kevin Altmann and Andreas Wenninger
Part5: Interpreting and Communicating Academic Evidence: Consumer Behavior and the Media
10. Exploring Consumers’ Interpretation of Contested Nutritional Evidence. The Relevance of the Moral Foundations Theory Edoardo Maria Pelli and Jutta Roosen 11. Stories about Villains, Mad Scientists and Failure. Patterns of Evidence Criticism in Media Coverage of Genomic Research Susanne Kinnebrock and Helena Bilandzic