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Politics of the life scientific

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The Direction of Research Is Influenced by Powerful People

The direction of research is influenced by powerful people, but not all people have access to power. In science the people leading the way are by and large a pretty homogeneous group old, white dodes. And that can influence the output of research. Take technology, for example. There is this assumption that technology is morally neutral. Or often people go beyond that and say that technology, by en large, is good, it's beneficial.

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