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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 22, 2025 9:30 PM<br>
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<div dir="auto">See you tomorrow! We’ll share lunch while hearing from Dan about the epistemic aims of science. </div>
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<div>Join us next week for the second talk of the year in our MetaSTEM research seminar series. Info below. Thanks to Dan for speaking, and to Christian for catering the lunchboxes. </div>
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<div><b>When:</b> Thursday, October 23, 12:30-1:30pm</div>
<div><b>Where:</b> SSM 230</div>
<div><b>Who:</b> Dan Hicks, presenting work with Emilio Lobato, Cosmo Campbell, Joseph Dad</div>
<div><b>What:</b> "Rival aims of science in an environmental controversy"<br>
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Environmental controversies are often framed in terms of "science vs. anti-science," with leftists and progressives typically claiming the side of science. However, their opponents often appeal to science as well. Hicks (2022) proposed that two rival views
of the aims of science might be at play in these kinds of controversies. On the "narrow view" science has purely epistemic aims; while the "broad view" takes science to also have pragmatic or practical aims.
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We argue that these rival views can be seen in the controversy over the proposed US EPA open data rule "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science." The original justification for the rule appealed to the narrative of a science-wide replication crisis
and the open science movement. In public comments, supporters of the rule likewise appealed to the narrow view of science, criticizing the titular "regulatory science" in epistemic rather than practical terms. While opponents of the rule appealed to the broad
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We analyze approximately 21,000 public comments on the proposed rule, combining manual coding with machine learning to classify every comment as supporting or opposing, and using natural language processing (NLP) and text mining methods to compare how supporters
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Reference: Hicks, Daniel J. 2022. “When Virtues Are Vices: ‘Anti-Science’ Epistemic Values in Environmental Politics.” *Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology* 14 (0).
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