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Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science

from Scientific American

Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science Scientific American In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Krauss bemoans what he sees as contemporary science's "ideological corruption." He blames this corruption on humanities scholars for pointing out how science can be "tainted by ideological biases due to race, sex or economic dominance." His complaint rests on a basic mistake. Krauss confuses what he calls ideological corruption — ideology leading science astray from facts — with ideological awareness. READ MORE

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