Alas, John Simmons begins with a worthwhile distinction (between science
and technology) but then falls into a common error.  "Pure" science is
anything but.  It, too, is greatly influenced by social values.  Hence the
studies which "prove" the superiority of one group of people over another,
those studies which are performed simply to advance one's career, etc.  I
am not referring here to aberrations like Lysenkoism, but to bodies of
work which conform to the strictest definitions of science.
 
There is a very large scholarly literature on this subject.
 
--bayla