In many of the social sciences, people come into the field with agendas and political leanings that at best subtly bias what they are doing and at worst overrid

In many of the social sciences, people come into the field with agendas and political leanings that at best subtly bias what they are doing and at worst override their search for truth and cause them to find the results they want, whether those results are real or not. In the hard sciences, there is rarely an agenda. People often care very much about the results, but they rarely bring with them deeply rooted political biases.