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Nice, the Legates paper, haven't seen that one in a while, as it is already a decade old and the discussion about it long over. That paper actually is a response to a single paper by Daniel Bedford (about agnotology as a teaching tool) from 2010, which Legates et al. comprehensively misrepresent and deliberately misquotes.
This was addressed by Daniel Bedford an John Cook in an answer in "Science & Education" in 2013 (
https://link.springer.com/article/10...191-013-9608-3 unfortunatly behind a pay wall).