A comment to this response posits that: "Dr. Monica McLemore's obit on E.O. Wilson was an unintentionally hilarious display of ignorance mixed with woke sancti

A comment to this response posits that: "Dr. Monica McLemore's obit on E.O. Wilson was an unintentionally hilarious display of ignorance mixed with woke sanctimony.... The idea that scientific knowledge is "socially constructed" ... is categorically and demonstrably false." In the past century we've seen many cases of strongly-held hypotheses causing contrary evidence to be ignored - and scientists with contrary hypotheses to be ridiculed, even ruined. Three examples: Wegner's plate tectonics, Bretz's catastropic floods, Cinq-Mars Bluefish cave dating. Eventually the first two were later adopted by the mainstream, their authors lauded. So certainly, the prior 'scientific knowledge' -- passed along to trusting educators and their students as if it were 'gospel truth' (despite evidence to the contrary, and eventual overthrow) -- was demonstrably socially-constructed - and still is. One difference from the the dogmatic medieval era is fewer stake-burnings.