Scientific objectification of subjects serves a fear of change, not neutrality.

Evidence

The investigator who, in the name of scientific objectivity, transforms the organic into something inorganic, what is becoming into what is, life into death, is a person who fears change. He or she sees in change (which is not denied, but neither is it desired) not a sign of life, but a sign of death and decay. He or she does want to study change—but in order to stop it, not in order to stimulate or deepen it. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 312

Categorization

• QUESTION: Challenges the reader’s own ‘neutral researcher’ reflex — worth examining which of one’s redesign choices are actually fear-of-change in disguise.