Browsing by Author "Pham, Michelle Trang Thu"
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- ItemOpen AccessConsensus and objectivity in science(2012) Pham, Michelle Trang Thu; Ereshefsky, Marchis is an essay about scientific consensus. Two claims are made. Scientific consensus is a crucial social mechanism, facilitating science's future prospects and research projects. But not only this, scientific consensus holds implications for a key success designator in science: scientific objectivity. More specifically, scientific consensus and scientific objectivity can be at odds. Yet both are commonly seen as crucial for science. I suggest that consensus can hinder scientific objectivity.