From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.

Donna J. Haraway
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In the beginning, science was a way to find out what was going on in the world. It was a means for people to figure out what was happening and how it could be changed. However, today science has become a battle between those who want to make the world a better place and those who want to build weapons of mass destruction. This is a terrible message that science is not a tool for good but a weapon for bad. Instead of using science as a means for good, we should look at it as a way of improving our lives rather than destroying them.

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