Researchers' Politics Don't Undermine Their Scientific Results

Posted on AllSides November 3rd, 2020
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OPINION

Our need for credible science has never been more urgent. An extraordinary pandemic grips the world, racial tensions are surging, and political polarization is at historically high levels. Solving these social problems is a matter of life and death and the public needs to trust that scientists are trying to get it right.

Yet science has become politicized, and some worry that the liberal leanings of many academics biases research and makes it untrustworthy. In fact, an opinion article in the New York Times suggested that such liberal groupthink might...

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-politics-dont-undermine-their-scientific-results/

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