What would any person have to gain by claiming that the scientific results of this or that is different that it really was?
What is their motive for lying?
2007-04-01 08:50:18 · 12 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Science is not biased, but I understand how many simple minded people might believe so.
Some argue that scientists have an agenda. This is true. Scientists do have an agenda, but not to disprove God, or to show that evolution is the only way humans could have gotten here. The agenda is to become famous and rich, for the most part, and for most scientists.
At this point, the simple minded people would go "yes, and they cover things up in order to get there".
Let me explain why that is a half baked thought.
Scientists are in constant competition with other scientists. If one scientist discovers something that might make him rich and famous, he submits it for publishing. Suddenly, hundreds and thousands of pissed off and jealous scientists around the world start trying to break that theory to pieces and put it together again the correct way, because they want the credit for themselves.
In this way, scientific theories are refined and reaffirmed until the scientists around the world have no choice but to accept that a theory has been perfected, and stop attacking it.
2007-04-01 09:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is no such thing as unbiased. Science is biased towards the scientific method. Nothing wrong with that, seeing as how the scientific method works and presently is the best method at gaining knowledge.
2007-04-01 16:30:00 · answer #2 · answered by CD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scientific evidence can, and indeed has been faked at times in the past. and every single time, it has been exposed. science either works, or it doesnt, an experiment succeeds and is repeatable, or it is not, and it fails. lying is simply not possible. therefore, it is the SCIENTISTS who are biased, not the science, mostly to protect some theory or other and their ego in order to receive precious funding or to attain status in the profession or in academia. look around the world and you will find that only science that works exists and remains useful, otherwise, it is discarded and is relegated to the trashbin of history.
2007-04-01 16:05:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
money and politrics can influence scientists. pressure can be applied, and corporations routinely fund junk science that promotes their agendas.
There was a woman in the 1950s who could have been the one to discover DNA, but her religious views made her dismiss things that did not suit her agenda. Instead, Watson and Crick got the credit.
But any science is based upon observation, human thought and interptretation, and the limits of our very own senses, so even to minor extents, some degree of accidental bias is inherent.
2007-04-01 16:00:21 · answer #4 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same for any liar, greed, fame, selfishness, not wanting to lose funding and therefore "face" in the scientific community.
But I don't really know of any biased science evidence, I'm just stating that for general reasons, scientists are human too :)
2007-04-01 15:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science is only as good as the people who are educated enough to understand or prove it. I can prove that 2 + 2 = 4. But if you are not rational enough to understand that, then the reality of it will not be real to you.
Faith can be held by anyone no matter how much education they have. Often times faith can not be proved.
2007-04-01 15:59:30 · answer #6 · answered by Mary W 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would think it's mostly due to a fear of losing some sort of control. What perceived control that is I don't no, but it is the only thing I can think of that would motivate it.
And yes Endora's right...money....I forgot the almighty dollar!
2007-04-01 15:54:55 · answer #7 · answered by buttercup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can only tell you my motive for lying. I lie cause it's funny. When I discover a lie that's funny, I tell it.
One of the funniest lies of all time is Jesus got up after being dead three days, and started walking around like nothing ever happened, and rose into the sky and became a god.
Now go to sleep.
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2007-04-01 15:59:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
because they want to be right. if people were not biased to their own studies we would have no need for blind or double blind studies. they (I should say we as we are all humans and I am speaking of human traits) want to be right, even if it means skewing the results.
2007-04-01 17:01:26 · answer #9 · answered by Alley C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
science is biased in the sense that anything that can't prove is labeled as fasle or not real. many things are proveable, we just havn't been able to prove them yet*
2007-04-01 16:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋