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    Mechanical objectivity enables science to proceed at large scale where interpersonal trust is insufficient

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    • 1.Mechanical objectivity minimizes the role of human contributions to scientific results
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    • 2.At large scale, bonds of trust between individual scientists cannot hold
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    • 3.Trust in mechanical procedures replaces trust in individual scientists
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    • 1.Mechanical procedures require skilled interpretation at every stage, reintroducing the expert judgment they were meant to eliminate (Daston & Galison, 2007).
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    • 2.Trust in instruments and protocols is itself a social achievement requiring negotiation, training, and credentialing among scientists (Shapin, 1994).
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    • 3.Scaling mechanical objectivity therefore scales the social infrastructure of trust rather than replacing it.
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    • 1.The history of replication crises shows that mechanically standardized procedures produce systematically correlated errors across laboratories (Ioannidis, 2005).
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    • 2.Interpersonal trust networks, by contrast, distribute epistemic risk through heterogeneous methods and local tacit knowledge (Collins, 1985).
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    • 3.Large-scale uniformity of procedure amplifies rather than mitigates the failures that trust was supposedly insufficient to prevent.
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    Mechanical objectivity reduces the importance of human contributions to scientific results to a minimum, and therefore enables science to proceed on a large scale where bonds of trust between individuals can no longer hold (Daston 1992). Trust in mechanical procedures thus replaces trust in individual scientists.
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