Synthesized answer
The provided passages do not detail specific evidence the author presents. They focus on the author's premise that science, and specifically DNA ideology, is shaped by social experience and reflects dominant societal values [2]. The author argues that scientists are social beings whose views are molded by their environment, and that science, like the Church historically, is a social institution [2]. The passages state that Lewontin examines the "false paths down which modern scientific ideology has led us" in his collection of essays [2]. However, the specific evidence used to support these claims is not included in the provided text.
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Pages: 112 Snippet: Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive ...
Title: Biology as Ideology by Richard C. Lewontin Description: R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist — a geneticist who teaches at Harvard — yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours. Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a…