Posted: July 22nd, 2016

Should scientific institutions take account of social or political pressures in determining the best course of action in solving scientific problems?

Should scientific institutions take account of social or political pressures in determining the best course of action in solving scientific problems? Can they avoid doing so? For instance, in discussing the medical community’s desire for “clean” trials, Epstein writes that some treatment activists argued:

the defense of science put forward by mainstream researchers was an ideology designed to promote the kind of science they happened to do as the only kind that could be called science. (p. 423)

Is there merit in this charge?




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