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  • Often however, the invocation of a model can be seen as a form of mathwashing: a way of lending credibility to an argument or justifying a course of action by appealing to mathematical authority (as if there were only one). 

    Handwashing and mathwashing | Cambridge Mathematics Lucy Rycroft-Smith 2023

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