Science and Politics | Nature

Science and Politics | Nature

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OF course I would not condemn scientific men who investigate human heredity, whatever their results may discredit, but I should advise them to avoid an emotional bias towards any particular political or social theory which may be affected by their investigations: otherwise experience teaches that their results are suspect. Of course I should not condemn scientific men for studying human diet, but the motive should be the discovery of scientific fact, not the demonstration that the British working class is underfed.Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:

OF course I would not condemn scientific men who investigate human heredity, whatever their results may discredit, but I should advise them to avoid an emotional bias towards any particular


political or social theory which may be affected by their investigations: otherwise experience teaches that their results are suspect. Of course I should not condemn scientific men for


studying human diet, but the motive should be the discovery of scientific fact, not the demonstration that the British working class is underfed.


Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: