Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too | Nature Climate Change
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The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that science is separate from society; however, this perspective ultimately weakens climate science.
  • kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Science should strive to be separate from society. The purest idea of science is that it is simply the true observational facts about the world. Testable, and reproducible by others. We shouldn’t strive to include more emotions in scientific discovery, we should strive to exclude it. Science isn’t a religion. It doesn’t require ‘belief’ or anything of the sort. It is simply discovery, and it should remain that way.