Science is usually appealed to give a decision in the context of political controversies. However, science is in a subtle way of social and political activity. It is not possible for science to be apolitical and to produce value-free objective facts. ...
Science is usually appealed to give a decision in the context of political controversies. However, science is in a subtle way of social and political activity. It is not possible for science to be apolitical and to produce value-free objective facts. Science provides only insufficient and fallible knowledge-claims and rarely speaks with one voice within the context of political controversies and decision-making in which all lands of constituents should be taken into consideration. The roots of political controversies scarcely situate in the realm of `facts` to be treated by science. What is needed is not more a d o r better science but social mechanisms to bring the hidden interests and values which lie behind the science to the forefront of the controversies.