ABSTRACT
One variant of the critique of science is postmodernism. Science can tell the causal conditions, explain how and why things happen, but it can offer no normative judgments. According to this position, science can deal with natural factors that can be tested in the laboratory, but it cannot deal with the realm of the subject or of passion; and value essentially involves individual sentiment and social attitudes and habits. Some philosophers of science deny that there are any objective methods at all. The methods of science are merely the more sophisticated elaboration and application of normative methods of thinking employed in ordinary life. One is the domain of religion, which is not considered to be proper to investigate, and the other is the area of ethics. Part of this anti-scientific ethical attitude involves the so-called "New Age" movement, as it is sometimes called; and it is a view that the scientist is like Dr. Frankenstein, or Dr. Strangelove.
