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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2020-07-27

"A person's social environment changes how they view the world, influences the questions they ask, and how they interpret their observations

"The story of how we discovered the honeybee has sex is a very good demonstration

"At every step along the way, we can show that the social environment of the observers kept them from seeing things that are obvious to us today.

"The social environment of the time kept the society from accepting some rather obvious observations.

"...and in science, this is exactly why we need social justice.

"We need it so we can change attitudes, and adopt new findings into usable technologies."

-- Ask An Entomologist ([twitter.com profile] BugQuestions), 2018-01-20 (but really, start at the top of the thread to get why this is a useful example, and to learn some neat stuff about the history of biology along the way)

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