Abstract
One of the descriptors of ASA is its "commitment to integrity in the practice of science." I surmise that for many of us integrity circles about the idea of faithfulness to the facts: speaking the truth about what has been discovered, presenting things fairly, documenting items carefully, and hewing close to the line by not overextending arguments or extrapolations. The picture is one of presenting "objective" facts. Donald MacKay once expressed it in these words: "The Christian case for objectivity as an ideal in science is so obvious as to hardly need stating ... [O]ur goal is objective value-free knowledge" (JASA 36 [1984]: 235). He went on to suggest that any proposal to dismiss the ideal of value-free knowledge as a "myth" would be irrational and irreligious.