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A Stealth War To Redefine Science

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
September 28, 2012
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Submitted by Hank on Fri, 09/28/2012 - 05:31
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How do you turn political science, economics or surveys of college undergraduates into science?  You claim scientists are mean to people and not liberal and tolerant at all unless they agree with what you say next and then set out to redefine science so that just about anything can qualify.

Anyone thinking on this for a moment can deduce there are going to get two reasons to do so, and they apply to almost anything: money and politics.

Writing in USA Today, Dr. Alex Berezow and I dissect the recent efforts to insist the social sciences and the humanities are part of the science continuum, and therefore should have the same legitimacy conferred on them, despite the fact that we all know society is not a laboratory,

Stealth war to redefine science By Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell, USA Today

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