This very interesting and very controversial issue is discussed here, here and here. The discussion was triggered by this post at the YFS blog on the all not-too-nice kinds of people one encounters in science and on losing one’s illusions down the road into the academe (see also here for a related post at the RS blog); for a kind of alternative point of view see here.
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The discussion about dispassionate mathematics in the blog of Math Horizons may be of interest, too.
For some reason, it is no longer up there, but google has it cached at:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:fQdJuObr3-QJ:horizonsaftermath.blogspot.com/2009/09/dispassionate-mathematics.html+/search%3Fhl%3Dtr%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DVVE%26q%3D%2Bsite:horizonsaftermath.blogspot.com%2Bdispassionate%2Bmathematics&cd=1&hl=tr&ct=clnk&gl=us