Somewhere in the period after the peak of deconstruction as a literary/ critical method of textual analysis, a trend towards interdisciplinary crosspollination occurred. This trend is buttressed by the academic tearing down – usually by humanities departments – of the special status heretofore accorded to texts produced by disciplines that utilize the scientific method as their primary sources of new knowledge, disciplines such as psychology and the social and natural sciences. These special statuses have now been questioned, and scholars now feel free to examine texts produced in the name of science as just like any text, subject to a new perspective with each effort at close reading. The advantage of this stance includes a greater accountability for and scrutiny of “truth” claims, a sort of check-and-balance.