Political prejudices dressed up as science

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It is their doom-laden political outlook that really convinces greens the world is ending, not scientific evidence.

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The more one studies the history of scientific ideas, the more one finds that personal prejudices do make an important contribution. The implication is clear: we must address the issue of presuppositions in science. What personal beliefs and convictions do scientists bring to their study of physics, chemistry, biology, genetics, anthropology, and so on? It is widely accepted today that scientists operate within adopted worldviews or paradigms - and that they carry out their work within a culture-related framework. If this is so, questions of morality should not be placed in a separate compartment from science, but should be seen as part of the paradigm which the scientist brings to his work.

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Payton Thomas

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