Kathleen Okruhlik Bias

Kathleen Okruhlik: Science Cannot Escape Bias In Kathleen Okruhlik’s paper, she strives to show that the practice of science as a whole, cannot escape bias, particularly bias in relation to the different sexes. Her argument is thorough, but flawed as it is possible for science to be unbiased. She includes many outdated papers showing how the science was skewed by only using male models, or how scientists are basing assumptions on the idea that male is superior to female, so they use males in their theories and explanations. Her account of why science is biased, is biased in itself as she takes a very feminist view of the situations and in forming her conclusion, but it has been found that bias in more modern science, is no longer a problem. Bias
The point that’s attempting to be relayed here is that in some situations where Okruhlik found clear bias in someone else’s work, seems imagined. This appears to be this way as she nit-picked the argument apart until there were pieces that could be put together to form a bias, but only when the original argument was described in a certain way. In summation, the topics this essay will be tackling are the skewed case studies that were used throughout Okruhlik’s essay, various facts that even Okruhlik cannot say are biased, and the argument that science cannot escape from all bias. The particular case study in Okruhlik’s essay that will be used is, gender and evolution show through a quote from Charles Darwin. She interprets this singular quote from his research as wholly biased, making all of his work in relation to this topic androcentric, in this section she brings in an alternative perspective to Darwin’s findings from Helen Longino and Ruth Doell who offered a more feminist approach to how Darwin’s findings could be interpreted