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• Empowering Bias: Trump Truth vs. Science

  By Lawrence Davidson| CounterPunch Verified It is true that science is embedded within human culture and therefore will carry some expression of human bias. However, this bias has always been considered a kind of contamination—something that drags us away from, rather than nearer, to scientific truth. Biases have come in innumerable forms, most claiming themselves to be representative of “real” truth. They have often come in the guise of religion, as Galileo can testify, and more recently, as those who do stem cell research can tell.

  By Lawrence Davidson · CounterPunch

  Feb. 21, 2025

• The World Goes Downside-Up

  By Lawrence Davidson| CounterPunch Verified When I was a “preteen,” maybe ten or eleven years old, I remember watching a sci-fi program on TV (maybe a Flash Gordon episode). It was about a society where criminality had become the legal norm. It was a land where the “strongest” prevailed simply because they could. For instance, theft was legal because those from whom things were taken were weak.

  By Lawrence Davidson · CounterPunch

  Feb. 03, 2025

• Empowering Bias: Trump Truth vs. Science

  By Lawrence Davidson| CounterPunch Verified It is true that science is embedded within human culture and therefore will carry some expression of human bias. However, this bias has always been considered a kind of contamination—something that drags us away from, rather than nearer, to scientific truth. Biases have come in innumerable forms, most claiming themselves to be representative of “real” truth. They have often come in the guise of religion, as Galileo can testify, and more recently, as those who do stem cell research can tell.

  By Lawrence Davidson · CounterPunch

  Feb. 21, 2025

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