scientific community
Scholars pursuing knowledge
The scientific community is the collective body of scientists and researchers worldwide, along with their institutions, publications, and shared practices.
It functions as a network that validates knowledge through peer review and replication: The scientific community reached consensus on climate change.
Appeals to the scientific community invoke expert authority on empirical questions.
- academicsProfessional researchers and teachers
- researchersThose who study systematically
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- peer reviewExpert evaluation before publication
- peer reviewedEvaluated by fellow specialists
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- science studiesscience communication, science policy, science education, public understanding, science literacy
- innovationinnovation, invention, innovative, innovate, breakthrough
- diasporaAfrican diaspora, exiles, Irish diaspora, emigrants, Jewish diaspora
- learned societieslearned society, learned societies, Royal Society, national academy, American Medical Association
- scientist photoslab coats, headshots, profile shots, Nobel laureate, Einstein
scientific communityreligious establishment
Faith-based institution
faith community · mystical traditions · dogmatists · fundamentalists · superstition
scientific communityconspiracy theorists
Believers in hidden plots
quacks · charlatans · flat earthers · anti-vaxxers · climate deniers
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