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Can a Source Be Unbiased?

Posted by: JollyLibrarian on: April 1, 2009

Last week, Emily Bush, our instructional librarian, was giving a presentation to a philosophy class. She was showing  a database that provided opposing viewpoints on various topics. A student raised his hand and asked, “Aren’t those biased sources?” He wanted sources that were unbiased.
And that, my friends, is the problem at hand. Is there such [...]