Science models the ethos of ends justifying means
Evidence
What is not pointed out, however, is that more than any other authority science is allowed by public opinion to practise the otherwise ethically odious principle of the end justifying the means. Science serves as the fullest epitome of the dissociation between the ends and the means which serves as the ideal of rational organization of human conduct: it is the ends which are subject to moral evaluation, not the means. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 456
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- XREF: connects to: Science’s value-freedom dismantled normative barriers to genocidal co-operation — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 315; Science justifies methods by success while ignoring domains where intersubjective certainty fails; Socially necessary waste rationalizes science and technique — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 230 (+1 more)