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Truer Facts Through Stronger Values: Confronting Science's Sociopolitical Realities.
Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot1,2, Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot3
114772The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Summary
Demanding "politics-free" science is flawed. Politically charged beliefs are crucial for accurate public health research, and anti-racist scientists can correct distortions in science.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Sociology of Science
- Health Equity
Background:
- Scientific objectivity is challenged by demands for
- politics-free/values-free
- science, particularly when addressing health disparities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the feasibility of
- politics-free
- science in public health research.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of racial disparities in lead poisoning, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19.
- Examination of the role of politically charged beliefs in assessing public health research.
- Case study of Black Panther opposition to violence research.
Main Results:
- The pursuit of
- politics-free
- science is deemed unworkable.
- Politically charged beliefs are essential for accurate public health research.
- Sociopolitical forces systematically distort these beliefs within science.
Conclusions:
- Accurate sociopolitical theories are needed to identify and correct errors in science.
- Knowledgeable anti-racist scientists, with accurate beliefs about sociopolitical forces, can exert corrective influence.
- Scientists should enhance their sociopolitical understanding and normative commitments rather than isolating politically charged beliefs.
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