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On November 28th, 1660, the Royal Society formed to create the world’s first learned society. The society adopted the motto Nullius in verba to signal their determination to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts and experimentation. This ethos was behind the publication of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica and Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite experiment on electricity in the Royal Society’s journal. Yet there is continued debate about the allegiances of scholars–are their scientific publications determined by their allegiance to ideological sects or do they live up to the motto and follow the evidence where it leads them? This issue cuts to the very origins and function of science: Can scientists be trusted to conduct unbiased science? There is a growing body of papers arguing that psychological research is guided by “ideological epistemology”(see Clark & Winegard …