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To: cosmicforce who wrote (93983)	1/19/2005 12:08:06 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) of 108807

My "thesis" is that (for example) if there is an observed correlation between (1) scores on scientific aptitude tests and (2) gender -- than the possible relationship between those two variables may be worthy of a working hypothesis and further scientific investigation. Science should be blind to societal values or preconceptions and should follow the evidence wherever it leads, shouldn't it? Potentially unethical experiments? Science would just be looking for a genetic explanation (or rejecting one), not infecting subjects with bubonic plague. The politics of the matter does not apply only to the president's office. If this were the main research interest of a young assistant professor at a university, how likely (all other things being equal) do you think it would be that (s)he would get tenure in the biology department?

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