Il “giusto posto” della scienza nella società: dalla “scienza come democrazia” alle “società democratiche della conoscenza”

[Autom. eng. transl.] In fact, starting from the middle of the last century, the legislation and policies of industrial countries more advanced have, on the one hand, regulated more and more sciences and technologies; but, on the other hand, they have also increasingly legitimized the regulatory power through evidence-based knowledge mediated by expert opinion. The self-validating and self-referential power of scientific knowledge, produced and justified by the community of scientists, in fact, appears problematic for democratic societies which, unlike authoritarian regimes, they are definitively engaged in evaluation and legitimation exercises of the powers exercised in them.