Feminist Professor Says Traditional Science Rooted In Racism, Wants To Create 'Feminist Science'
“We need to disrupt the epistemic authority of Science"
According to Campus Reform, women's studies professor Sara Giordano, a former neuroscientist who traded in her respectable profession for a joke, penned a recent essay for the feminist journal Catalyst where she lamented how SCIENCE! has “earned its epistemic authority through its co-constitution with colonization and slavery," relying on a "colonial and racialized form of power."
To recap, that means the science developed throughout the Western world has an inherently racist bent that has inflicted oppression upon people through colonialism.
“At the root of the justification for social inequality then is Western science,” she asserts, even going as far to claim that it has become a justification for capitalism being billed as a "natural economic system."
The cure, according to Giordano, is to inject feminism into the mix.
“We need to disrupt the epistemic authority of Science…[and] the assumption that science = truth,” Giordano writes, which says can be done through a new “feminist science practice that explicitly unsticks Science from Truth.”
“We need to disrupt the epistemic authority of Science"
According to Campus Reform, women's studies professor Sara Giordano, a former neuroscientist who traded in her respectable profession for a joke, penned a recent essay for the feminist journal Catalyst where she lamented how SCIENCE! has “earned its epistemic authority through its co-constitution with colonization and slavery," relying on a "colonial and racialized form of power."
To recap, that means the science developed throughout the Western world has an inherently racist bent that has inflicted oppression upon people through colonialism.
“At the root of the justification for social inequality then is Western science,” she asserts, even going as far to claim that it has become a justification for capitalism being billed as a "natural economic system."
The cure, according to Giordano, is to inject feminism into the mix.
“We need to disrupt the epistemic authority of Science…[and] the assumption that science = truth,” Giordano writes, which says can be done through a new “feminist science practice that explicitly unsticks Science from Truth.”
