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Unscientific Knowledge and the “Egg Aging” Panic

Final Report
TANAKA Sigeto <http://tsigeto.info>
(Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University)
JSPS KAKENHI project 17K02069 (2020-06-10)

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Summary

Japan has experienced floods of unscientific knowledge about human reproduction in recent times. Most of this information is created by professionals in the fields of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive medicine and spread widely through mass media campaigns. Such knowledge has also been used by the government as scientific evidence to justify the encouragement of pregnancy and childbirth for young women.

This project investigated the process of the emergence and spread of such discourse through a literature survey. The results show that the discourse has exerted its power since 2011, but related knowledge and visual representations had already been used by professionals before that.

The project also revealed the historical background in which such knowledge was associated with governmental policies against low fertility levels. These findings contribute to establishing a public decision-making system with scrutiny of scientific knowledge by nonprofessionals.

Research field

Sociology

Keywords

science communication, technology, life, reproductive medicine, fecundity, oocyte, pseudoscience, knowledge, massmedia,

Contents

  1. Background
  2. Objectives
  3. Method
  4. Results
  5. Appendix: Publications

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