The application of Critical Theory's insights to scientific practice: examining how power, social structures, and historical contexts shape scientific knowledge. Who funds research? Whose questions get asked? Whose bodies get studied? Who benefits from findings? Scientific Critical Theory doesn't reject science but subjects it to relentless critique, revealing how apparently neutral knowledge serves particular interests. It's science forced to confront its own politics, its own complicities, its own blind spots. Uncomfortable, necessary, and always asking "cui bono?"—who benefits?
"This medical research claims to be universal, but Scientific Critical Theory asks: who funded it? Who was in the sample? Who profits from the findings? Who's excluded from the conversation? Not because the science is wrong—because understanding power is part of understanding truth."
by Abzugal February 23, 2026
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