Consensus and objectivity in science
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2012
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his 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.
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Bibliography: p. 91-93
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Pham, M. T. (2012). Consensus and objectivity in science (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/4873