The appropriate critique of ... sciences is not that they are not "objective" but that they are partial, or narrow, or directed towards ends which on… - Robert N. Proctor

The ideal of value neutrality is not a single notion, but has arisen in the course of protracted struggles over the place that science should have in society.

Nazi philosophers also commonly expressed concerns about cruelty toward animals. In early 1933, Nazi representatives in the Prussian parliament called for legislation banning vivisection.

The rejection of concern for practical goals expressed in the German Society for Sociology's founding charter represented the culmination of a debate in the Social Policy Association, the so-called Werturteilsstreit, in which a group of young political economists, including , Werner Sombart, and Max Weber, attacked the older generation of political economists for mixing facts and values, science and politics.