Abstract
The so-called 'Science Wars' is a puzzling, largely American cultural phenomenon. The phrase gained prominence in 1996, when a rather obscure cultural studies journal called Social Text devoted an entire issue to critiques of Paul R. Gross and Norman Leavitt's controversial book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science.1 According to the journal's editors, apologists for the militaryindustrial complex on the right had declared war against science studies scholars, techno-sceptics, and environmentalists of the Left.
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