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To: neverdem

I love science but I have learned that this concept of scientists being objective is total hogwash. Ideally, they would be, but in practice they are not. “Science” is objective, “scientists” aren’t.


4 posted on 04/14/2009 9:28:02 PM PDT by LifeComesFirst (Until the unborn are free, nobody is free)
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To: LifeComesFirst

“Science” is objective. Scientists practice science. Therefore scientists are objective. Isn’t that something like a syllogism?

There are good scientists and bad scientists. So, how about “Science” is objective, “scientists” who are politicized aren’t.

Once politics gets its claws into “Science”, the inmates have taken over the asylum.


13 posted on 04/15/2009 12:38:48 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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