The practice of applying different epistemological standards to different kinds of knowledge or different knowers—demanding rigorous proof from marginalized perspectives while accepting hand-waving from dominant ones, requiring evidence from outsiders while taking insider claims on faith. Epistemological Double Standards are what make knowledge production political: who gets to know, whose knowledge counts, what standards apply to whom. They're the signature of epistemic injustice, the mechanism by which some ways of knowing are privileged and others marginalized.
Example: "He demanded rigorous evidence from indigenous knowledge systems while accepting Western science's claims on faith. Epistemological Double Standards in action: different standards for different knowers, different rules for different knowledge. The double standard was invisible to him, which is how it maintained epistemic injustice."
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Get the Epistemological Double Standards mug.The practice of applying different scientific standards to different research programs, different findings, or different researchers—demanding extraordinary evidence from inconvenient results while accepting ordinary evidence from favored conclusions. Scientific Double Standards are what make science political: funding flows to some questions, peer review favors some paradigms, publication privileges some findings. They're the signature of science as institution, not science as ideal—the gap between how science is supposed to work and how it actually works.
Example: "The study supporting his view was accepted with minimal review; the study challenging it was subjected to endless scrutiny. Scientific Double Standards in action: different standards for different findings, depending on whether they confirmed or challenged. The double standard was invisible to him, which is how science becomes ideology."
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