Editing Philosophy of science (section)

===Social accountability===
{{See also|The Mismeasure of Man}}
A broad issue affecting the neutrality of science concerns the areas which science chooses to explore{{mdash}}that is, what part of the world and of humankind are studied by science. [[Philip Kitcher]] in his ''Science, Truth, and Democracy''<ref>
{{cite book
 | last = Kitcher
 | first = Philip
 | author-link = Philip Kitcher
 | title = Science, Truth, and Democracy
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=frrhdqnMNzsC
 | series = Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
 | location = New York
 | publisher = Oxford University Press
 | date = 2001
 | isbn = 9780198033356
 | access-date = 26 September 2020
}}
</ref>
argues that scientific studies that attempt to show one segment of the population as being less intelligent, less successful, or emotionally backward compared to others have a political feedback effect which further excludes such groups from access to science. Thus such studies undermine the broad consensus required for good science by excluding certain people, and so proving themselves in the end to be unscientific.