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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Science is a neutral entity.
The scientific community may not be. Scientists with a particular moral bend may abuse science to a particular end. Pseudoscience by those with an agenda could characterize homosexuality as a mental illness until real science could show otherwise.
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I may be wrong but this seems to be a very Cartesian view of the way the world works. No human creations are objective realities that exist within the world like other material things, they are the subjective creations of the human minds.
Science doesn't exist without scientists. Since the relationship between pseudo and real science is relative over time, we cannot trust the moral decisions of science made by scientism alone. For example, the development of psychology and the treatment of disorders of the human mind. We don't practice lobotomies to the same extent that we used to but a few decades ago this was standard treatment for people with violent mood disorders.