 Scientific decision-making involves values. Some however have argued that the values present are merely epistemic values (Laudan 1986). For example, Thomas Kuhn argued that scientific theories are evaluated in terms of accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, and fruitfulness (Kuhn 1977). Moreover, he construed these as values because they are so vague as to require interpretation and they are many and thus require weighting. If they were merely methodological rules, then these would not be problems. Nevertheless, they appear to be epistemic. Conservation biology serves as an interesting case because it appears that moral and sociopolitical values are to be found at its core (Longino 1990). That is, they are not only epistemic.