Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science is a book by biologist Paul R. Gross and mathematician Norman Levitt. Both authors claim to be leftists who are trying to save the academic left from itself.
The book begins with a brief history of the left and, in its early pages, makes an important distinction: There is a difference between saying that science is a social project and saying that what science studies is a social construct.
See also: Sokal Affair
