The Higher Moral Panic: Academic Scientism and its Quarrels with Science and Technology Studies

摘要

'Higher Superstition' calls for scientists to symbolically take up arms against an anti-science movement (the academic left) which it claims has taken over a large part of the social studies of science, feminism, environmentalism and cultural studies. Despite its simplistic typecasting, unusually vitriolic and dismissive rhetoric and lack of interest in scholarly engagement with the fields of study under attack, 'Higher Superstition' has received considerable attention, much of it positive.