From the
Free Beacon:
The National Science Foundation has spent more than $400,000 on a
study that published scientific results on the “relationship between
gender and glaciers.”
The paper “Glaciers, gender, and science,”
published in January 2016, concluded that “ice is not just ice,” urging
scientists to take a “feminist political ecology and feminist
postcolonial” approach when they study melting ice caps and climate
change.
“Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental
change,” the paper by Mark Carey, a professor at the University of
Oregon, explained. “However, the relationships among gender, science,
and glaciers–particularly related to epistemological questions about the
production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied.”
I've got it! Glaciers are frigid, like most feminists! And
here's the melting pile of crap your taxes funded!
I could not make this crap up:
Through a review and synthesis of a multi-disciplinary and wide-ranging literature on human-ice relations, this paper proposes
a feminist glaciology framework to analyze
human-glacier dynamics, glacier narratives and discourse, and claims to
credibility and authority of
glaciological knowledge through the lens of
feminist studies. As a point of departure, we use ‘glaciology’ in an
encompassing
sense that exceeds the immediate scientific
meanings of the label, much as feminist critiques of geography, for
example, have
expanded what it is that ‘geography’ might mean
vis-à-vis geographic knowledge (Domosh, 1991; Rose, 1993). As such, feminist glaciology has four aspects: (1) knowledge producers, to decipher how gender affects the individuals producing glacier-related knowledges; (2) gendered science and knowledge, to address how glacier science, perceptions, and claims to credibility are gendered; (3) systems of scientific domination, to analyze how power, domination, colonialism, and control – undergirded by and coincident with masculinist ideologies –
have shaped glacier-related sciences and knowledges over time; and (4) alternative representations, to illustrate diverse methods and ways – beyond the natural sciences and including what we refer to as ‘folk glaciologies’
– to portray glaciers and integrate counter-narratives into broader conceptions of the cryosphere.
A reader found
a link to the $412,000 government grant that funded this crap. If there was a political party that cared about government waste, I would ask them to put some oversight into this.
See the advantages of funding
NRA/ILA and
Calguns Foundation, both of which fund my research.
Sokal: if you don't know the story.
