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A critical concept describing the oppressive use of “evidence” as a gatekeeping mechanism. In contexts where evidence is demanded but the means to produce it are controlled by the powerful, or where certain kinds of evidence are [arbitrarily] [privileged] over others, the demand for evidence becomes a tool of exclusion. The tyranny of evidence silences those who cannot afford research, whose knowledge is oral or experiential, or whose claims challenge dominant interests. It transforms a [legitimate] epistemic virtue into a weapon of hierarchy, where “show me the evidence” often means “conform to my standards or be silent.”
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