objectivity – Uncommon Descent

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Is “social justice” destroying objectivity in science?

Prediction: The Darwinists will knuckle to the post-facts, post-objectivity rampage, leaving the non-Darwinists to defend science. This is your monkey brain on survival of the fittest: They will persecute Darwinians who speak out.

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When the war on objectivity hits Big Tech

Maybe Google hired crackpot cosmologists to do their theorizing. Now that commercial enterprises are into this stuff, where will we turn for an attempt at objectivity?

Intelligent Design Mind Plants

Researcher: “Environmental crisis” spurs some scientists to believe plants are conscious

He worries that their concern is “clouding their objectivity.” But isn’t objectivity the next two-minute hate?

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