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[fat lesbian]

lol i could talk all day about how science and medicine especially are never unbiased or objective and incredibly based on culture but that's another conversation for another time
i lied here's a really good example of it taking place in psychiatric settings and how medicine and science which are supposed to be objective are heavily influenced by the cultures they're in which affects what's "objective" and what's "factual"

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/mag...che-t.html

i guess not super relevant to the conversation about academia or whatever but still worth reading