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 Requested Changes 
The current version uses e.g. a BBC source for sorta dubious claims. Neither the lede nor the main text treats various crucial topics, namely
 Science of team science  Science, technology and society Sociology of scientific knowledge Science studies Sociology of knowledge
  Romanticism in science Humboldtsches Bildungsideal Humboldtian science  Positivism dispute Crucial issues, not treated at all. We have a separate stubby entry for Wissenschaft btw. 
 Research Criticism of science Protoscience Merton thesis Mertonian norms
 scholasticism Multiple discovery Heroic theory of invention and scientific development
 scientific misconduct Research ethics Crucial aspect, not treated at all so far
 Science journalism (the current section about Media perspectives is rather amateurish)
 Science Wars The Two Cultures  White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Dead white European mengender studies The controversies about female or minority perspetives, especially in the STEM fields are neither mentioned and need to be treated properly.  Wilhelm Dilthey distinction is crucial, as well Steve Woolgar and of cause Bruno Latour.
 * We Have Never Been Modern Laboratory Life Science in Action (for the record, calling books published by the Harvard University Press ""fringe"" needs some courage ;)

That said, the current version is far from being complete. I would refer to improve the article instead of defening the status quo. If you have an issue with my sources, comment them under the reference entry.   

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning ""knowledge"") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about nature and the universe.""... modern science is a discovery as well as an invention. It was a discovery that nature generally acts regularly enough to be described by laws and even by mathematics; and required invention to devise the techniques, abstractions, apparatus, and organization for exhibiting the regularities and securing their law-like descriptions.""—J. L. Heilbron ( ) In an older and closely related meaning, ""science"" also refers to a body of knowledge itself, of the type that can be rationally explained and reliably applied. A practitioner of science is known as a scientist.

In modern usage, ""science"" may refer as well to a way of pursuing or producing knowledge, not only the knowledge itself. Especially in the anglophone world ""science"" is often restricted to those branches of study that seek to explain the phenomena of the material universe.Oxford English Dictionary The German approach of ""Wissenschaften"" in the tradition of Humboldtian science and Humboldtian education ideal is more generic and includes all sort of scholarly endeavours with philosophy still as a common denominator. The The Two Cultures the German Positivism dispute and the US science wars refer to ongoing controversies about the role of natural sciences and the humanities. The controversies refered as well to the longstanding dominance of male White Anglo-Saxon Protestant scholars in e.g. US universities and the use of ""Dead white European men"" as role models. It has lead to various attempts, as in gender studies to involve e.g. female or minority perspectives in science and as well a backslash defending the important role of the classics.Bernard Knox, The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993) (reprint, W. W. Norton & Company, 19