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Conservators of the hegemony of science-technology, in Ross's view, have declared that there is a "contagion of nihilism and irrationalism...spreading from the humanities and social sciences to the natural sciences and its core beliefs." Ross observes that this defense of technoscience is insensitive to the justifiable criticism of techoscience from the standpoint of social values. It is justifiable because "technoscience has played a conclusive and unavoidable role in reshaping the economic and cultural composition of most people's productive lives." And it is an "occupying presence" throughout the academy. He would like to see a change in the simplistic yea-nay science wars, which would bring technoscience around to asking how society can "make best use of its critical knowledge of nature?" We situate entities of applied science and technology under the category of postmodern praxis. Ross's essay enriches our understanding of the transfer of "pure" scientific knowledge to the practical realm of products and service for gain through corporate entitities.
Andrew Ross, Science Wars: Toward a Critique of Scientific Rationality