Ethical and moral values and questions are often treated as clearly separable (and separate) from ‘‘scientific work’’ and as some- thing with which the scientist need not contaminate their ‘‘objective’’ work.
In its desire for absolute rationality, Western thought wishes to cleave thought from emotion, cultural influence, and ethical dimensions.
Abstract and intellectual thinking are regarded as the most trustworthy forms of understanding, and rationality is fetishized. Data science, and the wider discipline of computer science, have implicitly or explicitly inherited this worldview.