Science and professions maintain trustworthiness through incentive structures and reputation

Evidence

In two arenas—science and the professions of law, medicine, and others—trustworthiness is commonly reinforced by the natural or institutionalized incentive structures of those arenas. Both depend heavily on reputational effects but in different ways. In addition, institutionalized self-sanctioning arguably works to keep scientists and professional practitioners reliable to some extent. As well, sanctioning by external institutions may be on the rise in science and some of the professions. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 850

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Research funding subordinates truth to the goal of performativity — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 342