Sciences’ benefits skew to the advantaged while costs fall on the least advantaged

Evidence

These criticisms, like the other two, support the more general argument that the benefits of modern sciences and technologies disproportionately have been distributed to the already most economically and politically advantaged groups and the costs to the already least advantaged groups (Harding, 1993). Moreover, critics point out that mainstream philosophies of science obscure such patterns by an accounting system that disclaims any responsibility the sciences might have for discriminatory or destructive uses or consequences of the sciences, foreseen or unforeseen, yet claims credit for any and all good uses and consequences of sciences, foreseen or not. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1570

Categorization

• XREF: Aligned with distributive claims used across the vault about institutionalized racism and who bears environmental and medical harms; grounds the ‘structural racism distributes costs’ family of claims. — connects to: Modern science distributes benefits to the advantaged and costs to the disadvantaged

Broader Connections

• Modern science distributes benefits to the advantaged and costs to the disadvantaged #corroborates (1.00)