“The natural world has a small or non-existent role in the construction of scientific knowledge,” writes the sociologist of science Harry Collins; similarly, the sociologist Stanley Aronowitz says, “Science legitimates itself by linking its discoveries with power, a connection which determines (not merely influences) what counts as reliable knowledge.” The facts are, in short, pawns in a game in which the “strongest team decrees what counts as truth.”
This seems too silly. Somehow scientific engineering works.
