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During the 1950s and 1960s, science, with its handmaiden of technology, was hailed as the answer to all human woes, yet recently; we have experienced a backlash against this source of knowledge. Account for the change in popular attitude toward science and evaluate the effect it has had upon the discipline. During the 1950s and 1960s many people believed that science could solve all of the problems facing society. Science was advancing at such an incredible rate that many fictional writings of the time predicted such things as colonization of the moon, flying cars, and that computers would be running almost all aspects of society by the end of the 20th century. Some people believed that science would be able to solve famine by drastically improving the way crops are raised and improving the amount of nourishment could be obtained from food. Some people believed that science would have the ability to eradicate all disease in the world and some people believed that science could possibly help bring peace to the world. But, recently there has been a backlash against science as a discipline and a solution to the problems of humanity. Many people now feel that science can’t solve all of the social problems that our worl