The sociology of science has shed light on the complexity of the process of scientific understanding; like any other human endeavor, this process is beset by irrationality, intersects with the game of power, and is affected by every sort of social and cultural influence. Nevertheless, despite all this, and in opposition to the exaggerations of a few postmodernists, cultural relativists, and the like, none of this diminishes the practical and theoretical efficacy of scientific thinking. Because in the end, in the majority of cases, it is possible to establish with clarity who is right and who
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