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Metatron | 3 Febr. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQdNjfehn9I

0:34 ["I value unbiassed positions, because they are the central core of all professional research and data analysis."]

No, they aren't.

In palaeontology, biology, astronomy, lots of professional research is definitely commited more to biassed interpretation (evolutionism, heliocentrism etc on both sides) than to unbiassed facts.

1:53 The problem isn't personal bias.

Academic neutrality was just fine when Academia held passionate Catholics and passionate Protestants fully going for their bias, like St. Robert Bellarmine and James VI and I.

The personal bias was acknowledged. In the Middle Ages, Academia as a whole had had an obvious Catholic bias. Someone has described scholasticism as "you can ask all the right and wrong questions you want, but you can't answer them in obvious contradiction with the Catholic faith."

In the two centuries around 1600 this changed, as Academia came to be done on two sides. I would say on most areas of dispute (did St. Ambrose believe the Real Presence in the Eucharist, was Clement Scotus martyred for opposing Boniface from a Calvinist view point, or like Boniface for being a Catholic missionary etc) Catholicism won. If you believe the Protestant positions I mentioned are parodic, you are ill informed about 19th C. and earlier Protestant versions of "Church History" ... it's sometimes as accurate as the "Assyriology" of Hislop.

Enter the Prussians.

They have a new idea on how to do Academic neutrality. No longer about the overall institution type existing in more than one confession, but it existing as state sponsored. No longer about Academia overall being neutral, but about asking each individual participant to be so.

Well, who the heck is to determine whether a researcher shows Academic neutrality or not? The guys who tend to perpetuate unacknowledged bias, of course!

[Could not post below follow up]

This saved the Enlightenment Project from dying as ignominous a death as Protestantism on the Academic arena.

[Yep, the comment at 1:53 was censored.]