Steve Fuller, Allen MacNeill and the Science Wars
Our friend Allen MacNeill over at EvolutionList has written a bunch about Steve Fuller in his last two posts, but he seems to have badly misunderstood what Fuller was saying. Allen seems to not realize (as a Macht pointed out to him in the comments) that Science Wars is a name for an intelluctual discussion between the humanities and the sciences during the nineties. It has nothing to do with evolution or ID or the culture wars. What is even sadder than this misunderstanding is that it spawned a whole conspiracy theory of an alliance between postmodernists and Christians who desperately want win some kind of social discourse.
You can read a bunch of articles on the Science Wars here by Fuller. The wikipedia article on the Science Wars also has some useful information.
It was common during the science wars for scientists to remonstrate that the sociologists, philosophers and historians who wrote about science knew nothing about science. It seems in this case we perhaps may have the reverse scenerio.
