agnotology
antiscience – Attitudes that reject science and the scientific method
anti-intellectualism – Hostility to and mistrust of education, philosophy, art, literature, and science
Cancer Wars – Documentary, a six-part documentary that aired on PBS in 1997, based on Robert N. Proctor's 1995 book, Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What we Know and Don't Know About Cancer
cognitive dissonance – Stress from contradictory beliefs, a social psychology theory that may explain the ease of maintaining ignorance (because people are driven to ignore conflicting evidence) and which also provides clues to how to bring about knowledge (perhaps by forcing the learner to reconcile reality with long-held, though inaccurate beliefs; see Socratic method)
cognitive inertia – Lack of motivation to mentally tackle a problem or issue
confirmation bias – Bias confirming existing attitudes
conspiracy of silence (expression) – unspoken group consensus to not mention, discuss, or acknowledge a given subject
creationism – Belief that nature originated through supernatural acts, systematic denial of scientific biological realities by misrepresenting them in terms of various dogmatic tenets
denialism – Person's choice to deny psychologically uncomfortable truth
Doubt Is Their Product – 2008 book by David Michaels
Dunning–Kruger effect, a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability at a task overestimate their skill level, and people with high ability at a task underestimate their skill level.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) – Tactic used to influence opinion, a disinformation technique using the appeal to fear
intelligent design – Pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, a class of creationism that attempts to support assorted topics in biological denialism by misrepresenting them and related junk science as scientific research
Japanese commercial whaling – Commercial hunting of whales by the Japanese fishing industry, an attempt at obfuscation of the culpability of commercial whaling by misrepresenting its junk-scientific rationale as scientific research.
junk science – Scientific data considered to be spurious or fraudulent
Merchants of Doubt – 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
historical negationism – Illegitimate distortion of the historical record
Neo-Luddism – Philosophy opposing modern technology
obscurantism – Practice of obscuring information
Sociology of scientific ignorance – Study of ignorance in science, or Ignorance Studies, the study of ignorance as something relevant.
subvertising – Parody advertising
The Republican War on Science – 2005 book by Chris Mooney
thought suppression – Conscious effort to discontinue a thought
vaccine controversies – Reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or have one's children vaccinated, based on assorted junk-scientific strategies to misrepresent life- and health-saving technologies as harmful rather than beneficial.