Very odd (or telling, at least) that this is getting downvoted. Of course there are all sorts of forces at play on what gets studied, what gets published once i

Very odd (or telling, at least) that this is getting downvoted. Of course there are all sorts of forces at play on what gets studied, what gets published once it’s studied, and what gets shared once it’s published. The scientific method has many tools to mitigate biases within itself/its practitioners. But as you say, the scientific method is a very, very small part of an enormous scientific apparatus that doesn’t (yet) have similar tools for mitigating these forces in itself. A trivial example: It’s hard for non-native English speakers to get published in the world’s premiere journals because, well duh, they publish in English. Are we to conclude the scientific method can only be carried out to Nature’s standards in English? Obviously not.