#agnotology
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #agnotology from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:24 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:24 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #agnotology.
Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 05:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~16173 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (34) · German (4) · French (1) · Spanish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.6
Top of the latest posts
From climate denial to agnotology (the study of how ignorance and doubt are deliberately, culturally, or politically manufactured) "It’s worth noting, human-made greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver of rising global average temperat
Academic Freedom index: - good are northern countries; - worst is Saudi Arabia; - Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero; - Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrate
The Politics of Ignorance One of the important ideas in the sociology of science is also one of the easiest to misunderstand: knowledge is socially produced. This does not mean that scientists simply make things up, it means something much
What “agnotology” means
WikipediaWithin the sociology of knowledge, agnotology is the study of deliberate, culturally cultivated ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. More generally, the term includes the condition where more knowledge of a subject creates greater uncertainty.
“Agnotology” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#agnotology across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #agnotology straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/agnotology