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"Objectivity and Ethics in Environmental Health Science"
by: Steve Wing, University of North Carolina (2003)
Published on: 6/1/2003

During the past several decades philosophers of science and scientists themselves have become increasingly aware of the complex ways in which scientific knowledge is shaped by its social context. This awareness has called into question traditional notions of objectivity. Working scientists need an understanding of their own practice that avoids the naive myth that science can become objective by avoiding social influences as well as the reductionist view that its content is determined simply by economic interests

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