The Role of Patience in Arguments About Vaccine Science

Miles C. Coleman

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2017.1294708

The Role of Patience in Arguments About Vaccine Science

Miles C. Coleman

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We value dialogue deeply. In public disagreements over science, however, ideals like “parsimony” and “objectivity” can create false justification for refusing dialogue. We impatiently proclaim the “facts” of scientific consensus, treating them as nonrhetorical objects, letting the science “speak for itself.” This essay makes a case for patient discourses of science, willing to acknowledge even the concerns of “pseudoscientific” publics, like vaccine denialists. Anthimeria is discussed as a practice for patiently “playing” with the tokens of expression associated with ours and others’ epistemological commitments, in order to embrace opportunities of knowing and relational being-together through the most “becoming of terms.”.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	513-528
Number of pages	16
Journal	Western Journal of Communication
Volume	82
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2017.1294708
State	Published - Aug 8 2018
Externally published	Yes

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