The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge.

Some doctors applauded the new report for highlighting scientific ignorance about the best way to approach prostate cancer, a disease that varies widely in its aggressiveness and how lethal it is.

The scientific ignorance does not stem from a lack of effort.

But if contemporary trends, whether scientific or commercial, can serve to expand the franchise of mental illness, the mores, biases and scientific ignorance of previous centuries did much to hide it.

Nevertheless, this evidence was not admissible in court, and Chaplin was forced to pay child support as a consequence of the scientific ignorance of that time.

It had been scientific ignorance, he suggested, that had permitted the clumsy models of the universe characteristic of Ptolemy's astronomy.

To reject it, the letter continues, "is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children."

He is saying that such widespread scientific ignorance is worrisome.

However, discussion exposed scientific ignorance about how the count of CD-4 cells in the blood was affected by chronic ailments.

It also requires a similar form of scientific ignorance, in that Sammon doesn't seem to recognize the difference between a measurement of temperature change and the theory that explains these changes.