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Science is not a democracy

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Curated: 15/05/2016 from medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/science-is-not-a-democracy-91898fd93429
Science is not a democracy

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When it comes to a wide variety of issues ... many of us have opinions that are based on fear or ideology, rather than on what the science says... we even vote (or ask our representatives to vote) on not just policy but on the science ... voting on science is completely antithetical to the entire enterprise ... debate in science isn’t about achieving consensus... it isn’t arguments or votes or opinion that herald the acceptance of a scientific explanation: it’s the evidence. Follow it wherever it leads.

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