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Vice President Al Gore '69 and Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel are but two political leaders who have realized the bias in science and are now looking to alternatives to the scientific world order...
...Professor of Physics Howard Georgi says that because science is a human endeavor, personal bias cannot be wholly separated from the scientific results...
Harvey Brooks, Pierce professor of technology and public policy and professor of applied physics, says any uncertainty present in scientific data will inevitably produce conflicting results based on human bias...
Given that the bias in science is acknowledged by scientists themselves, many modern political and philosophical thinkers are joining a backlash against science to remove the influence it now holds over modern culture...
Post-modernism regards partiality in science aspart of an inescapable universal bias. Accordingto post-modernist theory, no truths can beuniversally held, since all concepts of trutharise from local influences...