Started reading The Dialectical Biologist just from the name just because I studied biology and seeing the name was like “probably the book I should have been aware of 20 years ago” and oh my god this thing is a banger!

Only read the intro so far and:

But nothing evokes as much hostility among intellectuals as the suggestion that social forces influence or even dictate either the scientific method or the facts and theories of science. The Cartesian social analysis of science, like the Cartesian analysis in science, alienates science from society, making scientific fact and method “objective” and beyond social influence. Our view is different. We believe that science, in all its senses, is a social process that both causes and is caused by social organization. To do science is to be a social actor engaged, whether one likes it or not, in political activity. The denial of the interpenetration of the scientific and the social is itself a political act, giving support to social structures that hide behind scientific objectivity to perpetuate dependency, exploitation, racism, elitism, colonialism.

This is also 100% relevant to the thesis I am writing right now in a completely different field. It’s directly useful for the argument I am working on.

Thank you for making me aware of this!