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From the Print Edition: ‘The Myth of Scientific Objectivity,’ by William A. Wilson (November 2017)

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The purported objectivity of scientific inquiry is a damaging myth. Science has been ideologically captured since its birth, and “value-laden inquiry” is not a recent deviation but is rather fundamental to its successful practice.

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