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Can we separate science from ideology?
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Unless someone can show me damn good evidence that this process, or any other, happens differently depending on the ideology of the experimenter then I have to conclude that science and ideology are separate whether we like it or not. They cannot be "separated" because they cannot be joined. They are separate.
The Soviets tried to combine the two in the field of genetics and wound up with a huge disaster and only wrong ideas about genetics. It just does not work.
People can run around talking about this so long as they have not a clue what science is. Once you know what science is this discussion is over.
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