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The scientific method is not what it seems. According to Alison Jaggar in her article ?Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology? there is a ?myth of dispassionate investigation? that is ignored if not rejected. This ?dispassionate investigation? is one separating rationality and emotion, claiming that while the former is an essential component in the epistemological process, the latter plays no role. It states that humans are able to remove emotional biases when investigating the validity of a hypothesis. Epistemology, along with many other areas in philosophy, was heavily influenced by the rise of modern science in the late middle ages. Positivism, epistemology based on the scientific process of hypotheses, testing, and conclusion, has come to dominate the field and is the area Jaggar addresses when speaking of the ?dispassionate investigation.? To a positivist as well as most others, it?s obvious that when humans feel emotions they realize they have a tendency to act in a non-scientific fashion. If I feel angry, I can tell that my decisions are not going to be as ordered and fair as if I did