Chalmers intimates that important sources of recent efforts to discredit science and scientific objectivity are to be found in naive or self-aggrandizing scientists and admiring philosophers and historians, who, for so long, promoted a belief in science as an entirely disinterested pursuit of truth based on neutral observation and grounded on rock-solid foundations and sought unlimited public support and respect for its findings. By criticizing these "standard" views, as well as the excesses of some of their critics, Alan Chalmer's book serves as helpful corrective to this view and to the relativistic and nihilistic reactions it has engendered.