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A critical term for the infiltration of ideology into scientific practice, where ideological commitments shape research questions, methods, interpretations, and conclusions—often unconsciously. Ideoscience is not science guided by values (which is inevitable), but science where ideology replaces evidence, where conclusions are predetermined, and where dissent is treated as heresy rather than hypothesis. It manifests in cherry‑picked data, motivated reasoning, and the suppression of findings that contradict the dominant worldview. Ideoscience is particularly dangerous because it wears the lab coat of objectivity while serving political or cultural ends.
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