You’re a fool if you think science is anything but a human endeavour. Politics aka the issues and ideologies we face as humans will always be apart of our science.
- Cathryn
Science is universal, inclusive, nonpartisan, apolitical and all the rest of it. Scientists are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
I honestly hate these two response because frankly, science isn’t. Because science is cultivated and framed by (I know this is shocking, so brace yourself) humans. Saying it’s only scientists that are the problem and not potentially the science itself ignores the fact even the most basic ideas about what constitutes science are famed by humans.
The first poster summed it up: it is a human endeavor. Being such, it’s constrained by social/human politics at every turn. If we continually teach biased histories of science or lessons on scientific process that refuse to address cultural relationships and communication, it doesn’t matter how great the scientist(s) is.