Posted on 03/09/2016 11:34:31 AM PST by massmike
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.”
“Merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions,” the paper said.
The 10,417-word article published in Sage Journals’ “Progress in Human Geography,” was first highlighted by Reason’s Robby Soave and Tablet Magazine’s Yair Rosenberg.
The paper argues that glaciers can shape “religious beliefs and cultural values,” and that climate change can lead to the “breakdown of stereotypical gender roles and even ‘gender renegotiation.’”
While the paper argues that glacier research needs more feminine perspectives, gender is not defined as male and female for the researchers, but “as a range of personal and social possibilities.”
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And this my friends is exactly why we need trump. He has spent his own money on the campaign and has a strict budget and sticks with it even after the Cruz people criticized him in New Hampshire for not giving more money to his staff after realizing it wasn’t necessary. He won easily. That is who I want in charge of the United States budget.
Hey, even with giving money away to those who want to annihilate us, it's hard to ring up a $19 TRILLION debt, so you have to be very creative on how the tax dollars are thrown away. /s
I just have to believe there is a jokester who is just doing this to jerk people's chains and get a few bucks. Or he's totally deranged. What a load of crap. The people who vet these applications for funding of studies probably are only marginal readers. Like most of Congress. So if they can't understand it or can't read, it gets promoted up the ladder. Upstairs, people are too bust to read it. Just pass it and we'll find out what is in it type of thing.
There is a classic Dick Van Dyke episode where Rob and Laura, by mistake, get invited to a party of intellectuals. The gibberish among the intellectuals is hilarious.
Rarely do we see an insane person write down in words a description of their delusion. This is one of them.
The writers of this pabulum have a brilliant future in congressional politics.
Too many adjectives in there for it to be a credible scientific paper.
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