Lee C. McIntyre said at the article of his that was discussed at 
----Like medicine, social science is subjective. And it is also normative. We have a stake not just in knowing how things are but also in using this knowledge to make things the way we think they should be. We study voting behavior in the interest of preserving democratic values. We study the relationship between inflation and unemployment in order to mitigate the next recession. Yet unlike medicine, so far social scientists have not proven to be very effective in finding a way to wall off positive inquiry from normative expectations, which leads to the problem that instead of acquiring objective knowledge we may only be indulging in confirmation bias and wishful thinking. This is the real barrier to a better social science. It is not just that we have ineffective tools or a recalcitrant subject matter; it is that at some level we do not yet have enough respect for our own ignorance to keep ourselves honest by comparing our ideas relentlessly against the data. The challenge in social science, then, is to find a way to preserve our values without letting them interfere with empirical investigation. To change the world, we need to first understand it.
----What does “preserving our values” refer to? Is it the same thing for a nazi as it is for a good person? Is that phrase, in that context, smug, and maybe even idiotic? Does it already assume an answer to the question that the writer pretends to be asking?