If these extraneous factors could have such a profound influence on fundamental physics, what part of science could possibly remain untouched? And, indeed, this isn’t limited to quantum foundations: all of science is vulnerable to human biases and to influences from all the other spheres of human endeavor—politics, history, culture, economics, art—that some of those biases spring from. Most scientists, by and large, will agree to this. But agreeing with the abstract existence of these nonscientific biases within science is different from being faced with a concrete example. The idea that
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