Gould was certainly right that all scientists, as humans, have some sort of bias. But while biased scientists are inevitable, biased results are not… Science does not depend on unbiased investigators but on methods which limit the ability of the investigator’s bias to influence the results…Truth is hard, but it is sometimes obtainable despite even our strongest biases. What a marvellous thing, this science.
— David DeGusta and Jason E. Lewis, “Gould’s skulls: Is bias inevitable in science?” in New Scientist
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