 Regardless, of how we view these contemporary debates, it is clear that there are constitutive and contextual values present in conservation biology and any successor discipline moving forward. These include the relatively uncontroversial ones regarding inductive risk and SCB’s Code of Ethics, to those regarding the intrinsic value of organisms, species, and ecosystems. Furthermore, there are very important questions regarding how these values, non-controversial and controversial, should be advocated in the public sphere. If the values are broadly shared by scientist and non-scientist alike, then it appears that advocacy is simply on the public’s behalf. However, as the values become specific to the scientists themselves, their advocacy can appear to be in tension with regard to their objectivity as scientists (M.J. Brown 2013; Intemann 2005; Longino 1990). They appear as “tree huggers” and “environmentalists” and less than impartial. Moreover, if their advocacy detracts from their role as scientists, they one might worry that this all things considered renders them impotent in policymaking. They seem to be just another “talking head” (Odenbaugh 2003). Thus, conservation biologists must discern how to balance the values at work in their discipline and the greater good to which they are committed.