The myth of the heartless brain - in which @christelvaneck.bsky.social@lydiamessling.bsky.social@natureportfolio.bsky.social 🧪🌎

Sounds good. Even speaking up to correct mis and dis- information is political, but still it needs to be done.

@lacertko.bsky.social see above! The essay is out.

Ecologists were totally convinced of this until their study sites and study animals started vanishing. Now it's planetary wide.

We are a social species, after all.

Great article! I used to have a bias where I got outraged when politics 'invaded' science (back when I though that there was such thing as being safe from politics!!) For real though there are quite a few topics where stereotypes or sweeping common assumptions do a world of damage

Are there seriously still REaL SciEnCE iS pUrE anD nEUtrAL dudebros getting away with publishing their tedious drivel without peer reviewers utterly flaming them for their planet sized lack of self awareness and honking ignorance about how biases work. Are we somehow still in 2007?

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People are not neutral - that is a strawman argument. Accept that scientists are people and not neutral, but require transparency. To make an absurd argument - should scientists be neutral on the question of whether the earth is flat?

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