Why does it always take a long time to acknowledge environmental hazards such as climate change or air pollution, even when knowledge on their dangers has been available for years? Drawing on the case of French pesticide regulation, this article shows that this gap between knowledge and consequent action results not only from secretive corporate leverage on public decisions and expertise but also from the expertise and bureaucratic machinery behind pesticide regulation. This machinery fosters an organized denial where regulators systematically exclude uncomfortable knowledge that could challenge official risk assessment. Organized denial that legally maintains ignorance fulfills an implicit function. It preserves the legitimacy of the risk management system and, through it, the administrative and commercial organization of agricultural production in France.

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工作中有组织的否认：在法国农药法规中寻找一致性的困难

为什么人们总是需要很长时间才能认识到气候变化或空气污染等环境危害，即使这些危害的知识已经存在多年？本文借鉴法国农药监管的案例，表明知识与后续行动之间的差距不仅源于公司对公共决策和专业知识的秘密影响，还源于农药监管背后的专业知识和官僚机制。这种机制促进了有组织的否认监管机构系统地排除可能挑战官方风险评估的令人不安的知识。合法地维护无知的有组织的否认具有隐含的功能。它维护了风险管理系统的合法性，并通​​过它维护了法国农业生产的行政和商业组织。