Neutrality is a necessary moral ingredient to make the pursuit of objectivity a privileged, preferred, superior mode of behaviour. Objectivity is, in turn, necessary for making 'objective facts ' our deities. Making objective facts our deities, in turn, justifies scientific method, which is so conceived as to enable us to explore and enshrine those very kinds of facts. The structure of the scientific mythology is neither less complex nor less question-begging than the structure of traditional mythologies. I am neither deriding nor trying to diminish the importance of science.
Mythologies are terribly important in the life of societies and civilisations.
We cannot readily perceive that science is a form of mythology because science is an integral part of the perspective through which we view the world. Tampering with science and its mythology is tampering with the whole reality science constructed for us. We are reluctant to tamper with our basic view of ' reality ' for this would create too great a challenge to our identity which is rooted in a certain conception of reality, which happens to be the scientific concept of reality. For this very reason we tenaciously cling to the mythology of science. We cannot successfully challenge it or liberate ourselves from it until we develop an alternative mythology.