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Becoming Data: The Cost of Advancing the Fields of Genetics and Biometrics with Technology

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(ACHSRE) Gabriel Dudlicek, Phillip Durgin, Angela Ferro, Adam Goldsmith Today, the burgeoning fields of genetics and biometrics are continuously being woven into contemporary life, often times without the general population even noticing. This data can have many practical and beneficial purposes, such as identification, security, and medical research. However, concerns about what entities have access to… Read more Becoming Data: The Cost of Advancing the Fields of Genetics and Biometrics with Technology

The Annihilation of Privacy & Preservation of Racial Categorization 

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By Emma Bailey, Joshua O’Grady, Andrew Panneton, Matt Stevens *All authors contributed equally to this work. Genetics and biometrics are major emerging technologies of the 21st century. As scientists continue to make more discoveries and technologies become more advanced, it is only natural that controversial issues arise. The main issues that have risen from these advancements are… Read more The Annihilation of Privacy & Preservation of Racial Categorization 

Op-Ed: The Lenses of Objectivity

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  Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alexander Young   Each profession is equipped with a set of knowledge and their own view of objectivity. To truly understand objectivity, we must understand the connection between objectivity and the history of professional fields. Each interpretation of objectivity has developed an expert community with separate lenses. That… Read more Op-Ed: The Lenses of Objectivity

Objectivity: A Subjective Social Construct

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Gabriel Dudlicek, Phillip Durgin, Angela Ferro, Adam Goldsmith Objectivity is defined as a lack of bias or an accurate representation of reality. Under the assumption all knowledge is “situated” and therefore dependent on context, it is impossible or very difficult to have absolute truth. We cannot be confident that any knowledge is objective since it… Read more Objectivity: A Subjective Social Construct

Is Science truly Unbiased and Impersonal?

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By Colin Reynolds, Andrew Yatsuhashi, and Dominic Ferro *all authors contributed equally to this work* Science, with its strict rules and calculations, is meant to be impersonal and unbiased. On the contrary, the basic definition of objectivity reveals that there is no such thing as impersonal or unbiased science. While scientists have made great strides… Read more Is Science truly Unbiased and Impersonal?

Constructed Truths and Human Nature

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By: David Van Sickle, Steven Chelak, Maylee Gagnon, Cristopher Lafortune, James Copeland *All authors contributed equally to this work   Too few people question the origin of scientific “truth.” Where did the science come from? Why did the scientist publish what they published? It has become a societal norm to define scientists as people of veracity and discovery, an… Read more Constructed Truths and Human Nature

Standardizing the Quantification of Objectivity

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By: Kailana Wang, Jack Tatirosian, Miya Judy, and Ian Campbell *All authors contributed equally to this work*          How do we know what is “true nature?”  The objective reality, the very truth of nature, as Theodore Porter calls it, is often warped.  The aim of science is to present objective truths, that… Read more Standardizing the Quantification of Objectivity

Scientific Truth: Components & Construction

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By: Emma Bailey, Joshua O’Grady, Andrew Panneton, Matt Stevens *All authors contributed equally to this work   Scientific truth can be defined as objective and dynamic knowledge that is constructed from scientific practice through standardized processes. Despite the dynamic quality of scientific truths, they are always developed from the scientific method, using standardized measurements and experimentation to… Read more Scientific Truth: Components & Construction