Trust and criticism in science, Part II: Technological extension

In the first part I have talked about where and when trust might play an ineliminable role in science, in contrast to the prevalent opinion that scientific inquiry essentially requires a skeptical attitude.

I maintained that the problematic aspect of trust is that it generates epistemic vulnerability, which we clearly should not tolerate in the context of scientific knowledge production, and not that it involves epistemic dependence — that is, reliance on external sources such as testimony for justification. I argued…