But the term «postmodernism» became current outside this general discourse, within artistic and literary criticism, and in this other more specialized discourse, the «modernism» to which «post -» was prefixed has meant the sensibility that emerged in the arts around the turn of the present century, in deliberate rejection of the world shaped by Enlightenment and Romanticism, i.e., of the world otherwise called «modern.» (firstthings.com)
I'd put my money on confirmation bias overriding any latent skepticism or perhaps climate scientists being influenced by geological and not biological training, rather than deliberate rejection of the idea of testing the data before you try to explain it. (climateaudit.org)
Modernity is shaped by its deliberate rejection of the past, and modernity itself is our past. (firstthings.com)