ABSTRACT
A start can be made by briefly summarising the main results of the analysis. This recapitulation will enable to comprehend why highlighting the responsibilities of scientists in this context not only seems to be a reasonable conclusion, but also even a mandatory consequence of the results of this investigation. However, only some motivating reasons will be presented here that guided the decision to stress this point about responsibilities in science, but they will not be spelled out in detail. The considerations invoke the responsibilities of scientists to laymen addressed in an epistemologically relevant sense. There are at least two different groups of laymen: namely the interested public and students who are taught to become future experts in the relevant domains themselves. Analysing the functional roles of visual representations in accordance with the two contexts had already illustrated that social processes have a crucial influence on epistemic roles played by images in science.
