Science

[Gordon Fitch]

Miles Jackson:
> ... 
> Does this mean that scientists' social practices create the objects
> of study wholecloth?  Not necessarily.  But whether or not the
> object of investigation is "really there", above and beyond any
> human investigation and social practices, it is in fact the
> social practices that construct scientific truths.
> ...

And yet it's not any old thing which is constructed in the
name of science.