In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman Levitt s book Higher Superstition, presented as a wake-up call to scientists unaware of the dangers posed by the science-bashers, set the shrill tone of this reaction and led to the appearance of a growing number of scare stories about an antiscience movement in the op-ed sections of newspapers across the country. Unwilling to be political scapegoats for the decline in the public funding of...