Here is a thought experiment - lets publish two bogus papers. One that claims the holocaust victims are twice as high as the current accepted consensus, and one

Here is a thought experiment - lets publish two bogus papers. One that claims the holocaust victims are twice as high as the current accepted consensus, and one that claims that the victims are twice as low. If science was apolitical they both would be laughed away. My opinion is that in the real world - both will gain acceptance at the fringes, but while one of the papers will just be burried and ignored, the other will be career ending move and will be shredded, and careers will be launched disproving it. Same will be with any paper that perpetuates the white dominance narative and tries to disprove it. There are bigger penalties in going in one of the possible directions of the accepted truth. So we have built in conformation and confirmation bias in system. And the antivaxer paper is stellar example of using pseudoscience for political gain. With diversity in tech - you lose nothing by spinning any fact into pro diversity argument.