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A critical framework that examines how science, as an institution, establishes and maintains dominance over other ways of knowing. It argues that science’s cultural authority is not solely due to its success but is actively produced through institutional power, funding structures, and the marginalization of alternative epistemologies. The theory investigates how “scientific” becomes synonymous with “true,” how scientific institutions shape public policy, and how challenges to scientific consensus are delegitimized not through evidence but through the invocation of authority.
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