I figured this had to be a parody article from one of the a-holes who like to hurt the site by posting phony articles. But, Good Lord, it's for real.
"Over the past ten years I have published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, sociology of culture, social movements and sociology of emotions,"
Note that there are no actual scientific disciplines in there. Professors of the soft sciences have always longed to be taken as seriously as physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are. Much mischief has been born of this professional jealousy, not least of which is Marxism itself, which took one crackpot economic theory and imbued it with the magical word "scientific" and, boom: hundreds of millions dead.
I figured this had to be a parody article from one of the a-holes who like to hurt the site by posting phony articles. But, Good Lord, it's for real.
Hey, the sickest of life imitates the sickest of art.
Professors of the soft sciences have always longed to be taken as seriously as physicists, chemists, and mathematicians are. Much mischief has been born of this professional jealousy, not least of which is Marxism itself, which took one crackpot economic theory and imbued it with the magical word "scientific" and, boom: hundreds of millions dead.
If you haven't already read it, find
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. The authors are self-described liberals and feel excruciated that their analysis could give any ammunition to those of the right, but in the interest of truth they thought they had to write the book anyway. You will be richly rewarded.