Moreover, the historically accumulated experience is then often lost forever under the scientific onslaught. Tribal knowledge of the medicinal powers of various herbs or of methods of farming able to flourish without destroying the environment are obvious examples of wisdom often denigrated, ignored, and finally lost forever. Science often colonizes. Science often exaggerates its own power. Popular common sense does correctly tell many average folks that a nuclear physicist arguing that fission reactors are safe, or a bio-chemist arguing that cigarettes don't really cause cancer, or an engineer arguing that work must be organized in a hierarchy of jobs differentiated by skill and empowerment, are all hypocrites.
Science often sells out.
Science often exploits. Moreover, all these problems exist primarily along the familiar axes of class, race, power, and gender. Science can therefore be an illegitimate totalizing project, can marginalize less scientifically presented knowledge, and can argue, seemingly quite rationally, for the most odious projects, just as its crtiics claim. At Los Alamos during the massive multidisciplinary effort to develop the atomic bomb biographies indicate that not one influential scientist ever raised a single moral question about their actions. Even worse, a significant number of the scientists working on the project thought that an open-air detonation of their new weapon might conceivably ignite the atmosphere thereby terminating all earthly life.