title: Political orientations do not cancel out, and politics is not about truth.
abstract: Duarte et al. propose that divergent political biases cancel each other out such that increasing political diversity will improve scientific validity. We argue that this idea is misguided. Their recommendations for improving political diversity in academia bear the danger of imposing political interests on science. Scientific scrutiny and criticism are the only viable remedies for bad science.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Industrial Psychology,Leuphana University Lüneburg,21335 Lüneburg,Germany.pfister@uni-lueneburg.dehttp://www.leuphana.de/en/hans-ruediger-pfister.html.
authors.forename: Hans-Rüdiger
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychosocial Science,University of Bergen,5015 Bergen,Norway.gisela.boehm@psysp.uib.nohttp://www.uib.no/personer/Gisela.Boehm.
authors.forename: Gisela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Böhm
mesh_terms: D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012586:Science; D012919:Social Behavior