Discuss and evaluate the ways in which the beliefs of researchers might count as evidence for or against their results.

In the different fields of knowledge including areas of natural sciences, mathematics and history (humanities?), a belief that a knower has, often affects their results, in turn acting as evidence against their results. A belief is defined as a firm opinion or an acceptance of a thing, fact or statement with trust or confidence . It is likely that all researchers possess a belief about the specific subject being researched. (“evidence for” might imply a discussion of fundamentalism where the belief is the evidence for example: I believe God made the world in 6 days – How do you know? Because the Bible tells me so. How do you know the Bible is true? Because it is inspired by God. How do you know is inspired? Because it says so in the Bible! Most religious fundamentalists are like this with their various scriptures. There can be fundamentalists in fields of study where appeal is made to things like “all historians believe” or political correctness or received scientific opinion...