Science is political, and that's a bad thing

Re:Science is political, and that's a bad thing by Natsu on Saturday September 03, 2022 @02:09AM (#32699218)

> "Science is political" because most scientists aspire to answer questions that will have value for society.

There are other ways for science to be political than that:

Source: https://libguides.umn.edu/antiracismlens

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Learn the racist history of statistics

Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and Ronald Fisher are three of the statisticians who established the fundamental basis and techniques of modern statistics, and they were all eugenicists. There is a modern discourse on the racist history of statistics and data collection methodology, and a number of books published:

    Thicker than blood: how racial statistics lie (sociology)
    Weapons of math destruction (mathematics)
    White logic, white methods: racism and methodology (sociology)

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Re:Science is political, and that's a bad thing by oq_computer on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:00AM (#32709694)

'Discriminating Data' by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is a really interesting read about the impact and influence of the eugenic origins of statistics to new fields like network and data science too. Highly recommended.

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