Many people have the view that science is conducted in a way that is totally separate from our interests, what we care about, and social pressures. In fact, many people think that in order for science to be objective, it can’t be influenced by these factors. However, the pursuit of science is influenced by these social factors, and that is a good thing! When we come to understand what it really means for science to be objective, we’ll see that this is not at all incompatible with the importance of values. This video is aligned with Chapter 2 of the book Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning, by Angela Potochnik, Matteo Colombo, and Cory Wright.