Just how such cultural factors affect truths in science is unclear. The numerical value cited for the velocity of light has been established by dead and living white male Europeans and Americans. These numbers were also primarily established by dead white males of European and American ancestry. One observation from the life sciences may also be appropriate. Absolutes Perhaps, however, it is concepts, abstractions, or theories of modern science that would benefit by formulation or expression from an underrepresented perspective.
Postmodernist rhetoric argues that the content of any science is social.
Physics' is a bad model for physics. Every human being becomes one from the moment the fertilized ovum is embedded in the uterine wall and receives sustenance and chemical information from the mother's vascular networks. Semiotics is a discipline that analyzes the functioning of signs and symbols in languages of all types. In the current postmodernist critical milieu in social studies, semiotic theory and constructs have been directed toward the natural sciences. Latour's effort is an example of such an approach.