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However, more recently some of the leading critical theorists have recognized that their critiques have at times been counter-productive, and are providing intellectual ammunition for reactionary interests.

Writing about these developments in the context of global warming, Bruno Latour noted that " dangerous extremists are using the very same argument of social construction to destroy hard-won evidence that could save our lives.

Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?

Is it enough to say that we did not really mean what we meant?

" Some have suggested that this paper represented Latour's recanting his earlier claims, but others say that the paper's attack on " social construction " is consistent with positions he has taken since the second edition of his book Laboratory Life was published in 1979.