Philosophers and STS didn't create the climate of doubt around climate change.
A few sad/crotchety/old physicists + Big Oil + Beltway think-tanks peddling pseudo-science and libertarian pipe dreams did. #ExxonKnewhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage …
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What I find odd about Latour's latter-day position is that I read his work of the 1980s etc. as descriptive, not prescriptive. "Science in Action" argues in part that deconstruction is what *scientists* do. (And we could add lawyers and lobbyists to that mix...)
The idea that French philosophers inspired American lobbyists, lawyers, and cranks to deconstruct claims they wanted to challenge with seems amusingly self-flattering.
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If the argument is that we should be using the tools of construction/deconstruction towards positive aims (which is the best gloss I give on Latour's "Steam" essay), then I can get on board entirely (I see my more "policy-aimed" work as trying to do this). But without the guilt.
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