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In the face of a cultural expectation that scientists remain disinterested, the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists used their inaugural statement in March 1969 to construct an identity as civic agents with intense emotions. A close reading of this text in its production and reception context shows how a scientist activist group constitutes itself as an epistemic community anda visceral public, with one foot planted in the realm of objective knowledge and another moving into the torrent of impassioned political agency.

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“We Feel That It Is No Longer Possible to Remain Uninvolved”: A Rhetorical History of the Union of Concerned Scientists

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    2025年

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  • Leah Ceccarelli

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In the face of a cultural expectation that scientists remain disinterested, the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists used their inaugural statement in March 1969 to construct an identity as civic agents with intense emotions. A close reading of this text in its production and reception context shows how a scientist activist group constitutes itself as an epistemic community anda visceral public, with one foot planted in the realm of objective knowledge and another moving into the torrent of impassioned political agency.