Scientific methods exist precisely to counteract researchers’ inevitable personal biases

Evidence

However, science does not presuppose that individual scientists do not have their own interests when conducting research. That would simply be unrealistic, because researchers are also human beings. It is perfectly normal for scientists to want a certain result of their research because it corresponds to their own already published hypotheses, promotes their career, flatters their vanity, serves a “good cause” – or even the sponsor. The whole scientific method is intended to minimize the influence of such individual expectations of results on the knowledge gained. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 753

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies why science builds in redundancy and criticism rather than trusting individual scientists’ intentions.
• XREF: connects to: A scientist’s bias does not invalidate the evidence produced — Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False…, 122

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