Author: Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson is professor in philosophy at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He has written extensively on pseudoscience and science denial and was the founding chairperson of the Swedish Skeptics.
The Hidden Connection between Academic Relativists and Science Denial
Since the 1960s, relativism about natural science has been a major trend in parts of the social sciences. Proponents of social constructivism, the strong program, deconstructionism, and postmodernism describe results from natural science as power-based social constructions rather than the currently best knowledge about the natural world. Critics have accused them of contributing to the …
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