Political orientations do not cancel out, and politics is not about truth

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Political orientations do not cancel out, and politics is not about truth. / Pfister, Hans-Rüdiger; Böhm, Gisela.
in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Jahrgang 38, e153, 08.09.2015, S. 34-35.

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abstract = "Duarte et al. propose that divergent political biases cancel each other out such that increasing political diversity will improve scientific validity. We argue that this idea is misguided. Their recommendations for improving political diversity in academia bear the danger of imposing political interests on science. Scientific scrutiny and criticism are the only viable remedies for bad science.",
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