The removal of pluto from the class of planets and homosexuality from the class of psychiatric disorders: a comparison

We compare astronomers' removal of Pluto from the listing of planets and psychiatrists' removal of homosexuality from the listing of mental disorders. Although the political maneuverings that emerged in both controversies are less than scientifically ideal, we argue that competition for &q...

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Autores principales: Zachar, Peter, Kendler, Kenneth S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3283463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22244039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-4
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description We compare astronomers' removal of Pluto from the listing of planets and psychiatrists' removal of homosexuality from the listing of mental disorders. Although the political maneuverings that emerged in both controversies are less than scientifically ideal, we argue that competition for "scientific authority" among competing groups is a normal part of scientific progress. In both cases, a complicated relationship between abstract constructs and evidence made the classification problem thorny.
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spelling pubmed-32834632012-02-22 The removal of pluto from the class of planets and homosexuality from the class of psychiatric disorders: a comparison Zachar, Peter Kendler, Kenneth S Philos Ethics Humanit Med Research We compare astronomers' removal of Pluto from the listing of planets and psychiatrists' removal of homosexuality from the listing of mental disorders. Although the political maneuverings that emerged in both controversies are less than scientifically ideal, we argue that competition for "scientific authority" among competing groups is a normal part of scientific progress. In both cases, a complicated relationship between abstract constructs and evidence made the classification problem thorny. BioMed Central 2012-01-13 /pmc/articles/PMC3283463/ /pubmed/22244039 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-7-4 Text en Copyright ©2012 Zachar and Kendler; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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