Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: worn-out methodology

The authors of this book begin by asserting that "we fly no philosophical, political, or methodological colours." They then immediately give the lie to this claim by launching into an attack of postmodernism and the work of Shapin and Latour. Such high-handed critiques of postmodernism would be a little more reasonable if the authors could display at least a small amount of evidence that they had read and understood the works they were attacking. Make no mistake, this book definitely does fly philosophical, political, and methodological colors, and those colors appear to be fairly conservative ones.