In this episode of ‘What’s Science’, Amelia and guests Maxine Lin and Nell Bevan discuss what objectivity means in the context of science: can we separate science from the society it operates in, and how do we know when things are true? We can’t promise actual answers, but the discussion is hopefully interesting enough to make up for it!

Before the episode we read these four articles to prepare:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/the-ideal-of-objectivity/

https://kinesismagazine.com/2020/06/18/science-isnt-objective-but-thats-okay/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8051197/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00669-2

For more information on:

Meckel’s theory that humans have a fish stage during embryogenesis and Sommerfeld’s atomic structure theories: https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/allnews/thoughtleadership/?itemno=35051#:~:text=As%20it%20happens%2C%20early%20human,our%20development%20towards%20biological%20perfection.

The Flat Earth experiment is documented in the Netflix documentary ‘Behind the Curve’

The debunking of head sizes as a sign of intelligence: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/alice-lee-statistician-debunked-sexist-myths-skull-size-intelligence-180971241/

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