<story><title>The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]</title><url>http://iopenshell.usc.edu/pubs/pdf/jpcl_opinion_2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fatcat500</author><text>The people who are currently successfully utilizing science to legitimize knowledge are doing so off of the moral, social, and cultural capital accrued by previous generations of scientists.&lt;p&gt;The assumption that the general public will always perceive science with a reverent and trusting eye is wrong: once the capital runs out, science will be perceived as just another tentacle of the establishment. Politicizing scientific language is a surefire way of accelerating this process.&lt;p&gt;This is what has already happened with the MSM, of course.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]</title><url>http://iopenshell.usc.edu/pubs/pdf/jpcl_opinion_2021.pdf</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>i_love_limes</author><text>I am just an interested layman, but I have found Historians as prime examples of academics who get this balance right.  This, to me, seems to be because they have to squarely level with their own biases and preconceived ideas of what they are studying from the outset.&lt;p&gt;Once that is addressed upfront (whether it is personal preference, or cultural bias&amp;#x2F;context), the authors are able to both express themselves more freely as well as be more critical of their own perspective.&lt;p&gt;I think other social sciences researchers are more OK with this idea, and unfortunately STEM researchers seem to go out of their way to assume they have no perspectives or biases, as the assumption is that &amp;#x27;pure research&amp;#x27; is unable to be tainted by such things.&lt;p&gt;To expose my own personal bias, I find this article to be very heavy handed and reactionary.</text></comment>