Carcass wrote:
Peer-reviewed journals are a sacred cow of most scientific rationalists, but studies have shown that the premise of impartiality is ________________ , as results tend to be colored by the personal proclivities and suppositions of the experimenters.
□ inane
□ prejudicial
□ fatuous
□ chimerical
□ fallible
□ vexing
IMO here the author trying to convene that the individual's opinions are not infallible. Individuals tend to make mistakes, so we dont need to take those opinion as a sacred cow(An idiom for something that cannot be questioned). Hence we need to find a synonym similar to
"makes mistake".
Fallible properly fits the place, but i am skeptical about chimerical
Carcass or Can anyone please explain?