After more than four centuries of distinguished service to science, the ideal of value-free scienceThe ideal of value-free science finally passed on. Its funeral, though, far from the dignified affair proper for such occasions, was marred by controversy. On the one hand, there were the expected outpourings of grief and loss—from the public (“science is just not trustworthy anymore”) and the underrepresented in the scientific community (“more worried about sexist and racist science than ever before”), and the science studies community (“now confronted with an unbelievably complex problemProblems of demarcating legitimate from illegitimate science”). But, on the other hand, there were the sharp critiques of those outpourings along with a spirited defense of Matt Brown’s suggested replacement idealIdeals of science, the ideal of moral imaginationThe ideal of moral imagination—all offered by Matt Brown himself. It was an unseemly kind of behavior for a funeral, but it worked! The ideal of moral imaginationThe ideal of moral imagination ended up gaining a hearing and ultimately winning approval, though not without the help of yet another old idealIdeals of science still with us.