Scientific objectivity refers to the practice of conducting scientific investigations without personal biases or opinions, and relying solely on evidence and data to draw conclusions. It means being impartial and using a systematic approach to ensure that the results obtained are reliable and accurate.
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Many biologists, intent
upon scientific objectivity, are reluctant to see in the development of terrestrial life anything more than an unlimited proliferation of forms, all on the same level.
The idea was to
bring scientific objectivity to the study of art, in an attempt to find neurological bases for the techniques that artists have perfected over the years.
Roszak believes the ideal
of scientific objectivity has created a narrowing of our sensibilities, a diminished mode of consciousness.
We will consider ideological secularism later; but methodological secularization takes place when, in order to obtain
greater scientific objectivity or to perform a technical task, one decides it is better to suspend religious beliefs.
«Characteristic for his publications are arguments based on statistical analyses, the often uncommented documentation of facts, and the
resulting scientific objectivity,» says the financial mathematician when describing the style of the newspaper articles, magazine essays, and books which Gumbel published in the 1920s without paying any regard to the losses made.
Pepa Prieto and Dean Monogenis will both show abstracted works in
which scientific objectivity is gone and a plurality of space is emphasized.
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that schwing, considering climate - data uncertainty you'd likely
expect scientific objectivity re CO2 theory effectivity, not scientists resorting to doom message advocacy, promoting a god's - eye - view theory monopoly, even action against dissenters politically.
Here the ideal of scripture reading as a type of
scientific objectivity is replaced by an approach that creatively interprets with love.»
«Both cases, as well as the broader international controversies over whaling and sealing in the context of which they arose, illustrate the persuasive power of the «appeal to science»:
enlisting scientific objectivity and rigour to underpin the credibility of legal arguments and legal norms,» says the abstract.
Once we came to acknowledge that, like every other reader, the historian writes from a particular standpoint skewed by class, gender and race bias, historical method lost its fig leaf
of scientific objectivity.
Those who oppose any visible commitment, however, hold the upper hand, whether because of lingering beliefs
in scientific objectivity, concerns over pluralism, or alleged legal restrictions.
The Editors, Chapter Lead Authors, and Contributing Authors are tasked with considering the scientific, technical, economic, and social issues regarding climate change, and with assessing each issue
with scientific objectivity and attention to all relevant evidence, with an emphasis on peer - reviewed scientific findings neglected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
And she works for Azusa, which makes her bias and inability to maintain
any scientific objectivity very apparent, as she must always support the conclusion of a creator first.
And the biggest threats to this enterprise come from completely opposite directions — postmodernist denial of
scientific objectivity and religious obscurantism and dogmatism.
The role of the Magisterium is sometimes presented as a restriction on science and
scientific objectivity.
Few will seriously deny
that scientific objectivity is a worthy ideal for science.
(19) Critical sociology can help us see that the vested interests and ideological defenses of «
scientific objectivity» are as dangerous and dishonest as the old absolutes of religion.
The IPCC is not, in fact, an objective, neutral body that evaluates pure research; it is a dominantly political body controlled by a tight group of true believers — an advocacy organization that only pretends to
scientific objectivity.
Past experience has shown, however, that
scientific objectivity is often less persuasive than other forces in decisions around public policy
Here is what you wrote — «Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and
scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.»
Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and
scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.
«Theories of risk have yet to develop a satisfactory conception of «
scientific objectivity»,» point out the editors.
But he acknowledges that governments, wary of controversy, have shied away from funding further ocean fertilization projects, and he's skeptical of corporate efforts to support them, fearing a lack of
scientific objectivity.
Reiss's advocacy concerns a few of her colleagues, who worry that involvement in activism indicates a loss of
scientific objectivity.
Thus it fit the demands for efficiency and
scientific objectivity, themes that were part of the emerging scientism of the period.
These scores are then distributed with an authority and «
scientific objectivity» that is simply unwarranted.
The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of
scientific objectivity.
My father lost
his scientific objectivity and grabbed me by the shirt.
Rehearsing the language of
scientific objectivity, the film provides a colored take on the movements and gestures of hermaphroditic planarians — critters with an unusual ability to regenerate lost body parts and to divide themselves into differentiated entities.
I don't think all our efforts to get to greater understanding about what's going on in our planetary climate are all good or all bad, but I do think a lot of decsions are heavily impacted by the public's perception and the image of the bear swimming to oblivion, if that's in fact what happens, carries more weight than
scientific objectivity.