**Nothing is ever *truly* objective, but science is one of the most objective things on earth** In an increasingly polarised world of so-called [alternative facts](https://theconversation.com/alternative-facts-do-exist-beliefs-lies-and-politics-84692), everything is up for debate - even science. While I am absolutely in favour of scientists holding an incredibly important role in society for the work they do, it is also essential that we remember the ways science has been manipulated throughout history for nefarious purposes. Science itself is objective, but scientists are only human. - [Scientific racism](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/disturbing-resilience-scientific-racism-180972243/) has repeatedly been used to justify the abhorrent treatment of marginalised people, and [social Darwinism](https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism#:~:text=Social%20Darwinism%20is%20a%20loose,%2C%20social%2C%20or%20economic%20views.) has similarly been used for discriminatory purposes - [Scientists have bias which can impact research](https://www.sciencenews.org/snhs/guide/component/how-bias-affects-scientific-research) - this has to be minimised in order to achieve the most accurate results - [Misinformation is particularly catastrophic when it concerns science], as it has halted our collective response to the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, with the [anti-vax movement more prominent than ever](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210720-the-complexities-of-vaccine-hesitancy) - [Pseudoscience must be distinguished from actual science](https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/jan/26/why-people-fall-for-pseudoscience-and-how-academics-can-fight-back), as its prevalence has incredibly harmful effects on people and the planet The lesson to take here is that while we must trust facts from reliable sources, as well as improve our cultural media literacy in order to root out misinformation. None of this is to disparage science or scientists themselves, but to encourage people to think more critically - but *sensibly* - about the world around them. Perhaps then science *is* objective, and we must simply get better at recognising it when we see it.

**Whether the findings of science are objectively true is indeed disputable and still uncertain, yet compared with all other institutions or human activities in general, science is certainly the most objective and its object of inquiry is objective.** It is true that science has its limitations. The most brilliant scientists still struggle with understanding what exactly happened before the Big Bang or what caused abiogenesis. The existing laws of science are likewise not entirely perfect or objective. Just several centuries ago Newton's Classical Mechanics was revered as the absolute truth, yet its flaws were soon discovered and it was superseded by Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Even nowadays, we still do not know how to reconcile the two aforementioned theory, and the String-theory that is proposed to reconcile them is widely criticized and debunked. The frontier of science is indeed teemed with uncertainty, yet the territory over which science has its firm grip is so certain that it can be considered objective. For example, the Big Bang theory, which is concerned with how the universe came into existence, is nowadays a universally accepted cosmological model since it supported by [overwhelming amount of evidence](https://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html). It is of scientific consensus nowadays that the universe came into existing 13.8 billion years ago, and this discovery is considered objective. Kepler's laws of planetary motion are likewise objective since every single planet's orbits obey Kepler's mathematical formulation. These theories that are repeatedly confirmed by evidence and observation leave no room for doubt, and can therefore be effectively considered objective. The object of inquiry alone of science is objective truth and the objective principles of the universe. On many aspects, we may have not yet arrived at these objective truths yet, yet on many other grounds we have already. Hence, science certainly can be objective.