Postmodernists (for now, let’s use this term to mean the academics whose fields end in the word “studies,” such as science studies, gender studies, and the like, and their intellectual allies in the philosophy of science, as well as in journalism, politics, and literature) took issue with these claims of science on principle, arguing that they are based on unexamined assumptions of the Western white male-dominated culture that created modern science. In effect, they sought to pull the rug out from under science and objectivity.
