Public understanding of futures & foresight science: A reply to Chermack’s response

In this essay, which is a reply to Chermack’s (2019) response to our article, the authors develop the most constructive feedback in the aforementioned response essay and then respond to more critical comments. As we shall see, in parallel with science and technology studies (STS) literature on the public understanding of science, the authors propose the utility of research on the “public understanding of futures and foresight science;” after that, the authors defend and add context to some of the decisions that had to be made in establishing the scope and framework for the article “Defining scenario” (Spaniol & Rowland, 2019). [Correction added on 13 May 2019, after first online publication: typographical errors in the citations of Chermack (2019) and Spaniol & Rowland (2019) have been corrected.].