Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible

day prophets call for the programmatic scepticism that Merton and Popper teach us. Yet there is no more an important field of inquiry than forecasts of the future in a time of global environmental threats. ‘‘Techniques of prospection’’ certainly deserve urgent attention, in particular because of the role of contingency in the art of politics. Is there something missing in the volume? At least in Sweden, theologians are often represented in STS networking, despite the country being very secularized. The religious dimension could have been better covered. This lacuna is a bit amazing because of ‘‘priest’’ being the second career choice for U.S. sociologists.