title: Science kitsch and pop science: A reconnaissance.
abstract: Science kitsch? The combination of these two words rings like an oxymoron. Science - as the common saying has it - exposes, discovers, tells the truth; kitsch conceals, covers, lies. I think, this "shadow" of science deserves a specific scrutiny, not only because it reflects the altered place and role of science in contemporary "knowledge" society but also because it pinpoints the task of relocating science in the "multicultural" context of postmodernism, with its different epistemic claims. The genre of science kitsch may help to regain credit by working as a probe to detect false pretensions, explanatory exuberance and exaggerations in science.
authors.affiliation: Independent Scholar.
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaeser
keywords: multiculturalism; pop culture; postmodernism; science popularisation; sociology of science