Science isn’t neutral. It never was. From funding priorities to methodological biases, every step is shaped by human values. The question isn’t whether science is value-laden, but whose values shape it—and who gets to call it ‘objective
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Jo Wolff
I'd put it the other way round. Scientific method, as a human practice, is intrinsically value laden. What you choose to investigate, what you decide to measure, how you measure, what you ignore, how you deal with uncomfortable results, even who you allow to do it, are all soaked in values.
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