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Originally Posted by peter12
It's funny that people say science has no moral stance on anything and act like its some neutral entity. Up until a few years ago, homosexuality was considered a mental illness!
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Science is a neutral entity.
The scientific community may not be. Scientists with a particular moral bend may abuse science to a particular end. Pseudoscience by those with an agenda could characterize homosexuality as a mental illness until real science could show otherwise.
I would think Dicken's "Hard Times" would fit more than Huxley. But in either case, I don't see how the scientific method could be anything but an unbiased view of the world. If I mix a base and an acid I get a neutral solution. Every time. There is no way to introduce bias. Just so long as science isn't the driver for everything in society. However, Vulcan seems to thrive quite well.