Be(e)coming experts: The controversy over insecticides in the honey bee colony collapse disorder. Suryanarayanan, S. & Kleinman, D. L. Social Studies of Science, 43(2):215–240, 2013.
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In this article, we explore the politics of expertise in an ongoing controversy in the U States over the role of certain insecticides in colony collapse disorder - a phenomenon inv mass die-offs of honey bees. Numerous long-time commercial beekeepers contend that systemic agricultural insecticides are a crucial part of the cocktail of factors responsib colony collapse disorder. Many scientists actively researching colony collapse disorder rej beekeepers' claims, citing the lack of conclusive evidence from field experiments by aca and industry toxicologists. US Environmental Protection Agency regulators, in turn, privile latters' approach to the issue, and use the lack of conclusive evidence of systemic insect role in colony collapse disorder to justify permitting these chemicals to remain on the m Drawing on semistructured interviews with key players in the controversy, as well as publ documents and ethnographic data, we show how a set of research norms and practices agricultural entomology came to dominate the investigation of the links between pesti and honey bee health, and how the epistemologica! dominance of these norms and pr served to marginalize the knowledge claims and policy positions of commercial beekeepers i colony collapse disorder controversy. We conclude with a discussion of how the colony c disorder case can help us think about the nature and politics of expertise.
@article{suryanarayanan2013BeecomingExpertsControversy,
	title = {Be(e)coming experts: {The} controversy over insecticides in the honey bee colony collapse disorder},
	volume = {43},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/43284180},
	abstract = {In this article, we explore the politics of expertise in an ongoing controversy in the U States over the role of certain insecticides in colony collapse disorder - a phenomenon inv mass die-offs of honey bees. Numerous long-time commercial beekeepers contend that systemic agricultural insecticides are a crucial part of the cocktail of factors responsib colony collapse disorder. Many scientists actively researching colony collapse disorder rej beekeepers' claims, citing the lack of conclusive evidence from field experiments by aca and industry toxicologists. US Environmental Protection Agency regulators, in turn, privile latters' approach to the issue, and use the lack of conclusive evidence of systemic insect role in colony collapse disorder to justify permitting these chemicals to remain on the m Drawing on semistructured interviews with key players in the controversy, as well as publ documents and ethnographic data, we show how a set of research norms and practices agricultural entomology came to dominate the investigation of the links between pesti and honey bee health, and how the epistemologica! dominance of these norms and pr served to marginalize the knowledge claims and policy positions of commercial beekeepers i colony collapse disorder controversy. We conclude with a discussion of how the colony c disorder case can help us think about the nature and politics of expertise.},
	language = {en},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Social Studies of Science},
	author = {Suryanarayanan, Sainath and Kleinman, Daniel Lee},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {215--240},
}

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