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Anthropologists debate role of science

Noted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin at Madison objected to people framing the debate as one of the “delusion” of some scholars that there is a bias against science.  Going back to the absence of the word ?science? from the long-range plan, he said that “words matter, and words that are voted on by elected committees matter more?. Words don?t get deleted from text files without agency, without somebody doing it.”