There was considerable discussion at the Congress on the anti-science that is being created, not only in the media but on university campuses as well. They told how academia is being split down the middle as the post-modernists, deconstructionists, and relativists in the humanities and social sciences rail away at the natural sciences as nothing more than another social activity designed by European males to oppress the rest of humanity. He said it was easy, because he didn't have to worry about being consistent. He said the post-modernists are actually friends of science and only trying to elucidate how it works. If that was all it was to it, there would be no problem.
Sure science is a social endeavor.
Developing a consensus is a social process. However, many post-modernists assert that science has nothing to say about objective reality. Some even say that there is no such thing as objective reality. We have had two First Ladies now who have dabbled in both camps. Perhaps we are witnessing the birth of a new ecumenical movement.