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Let's Go On a Science Adventure Together
From Powerline, this hot identity politics mess of a Jezebel blogpost on glaciers.
JeffB. says this cost You over $400,000 in grant money to produce. Don't forget that as you read.
This is not a parody. Powerline thought it was, but the lead author is an associate dean at the University of Oregon.
Glaciers, gender, and science A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research Mark Carey
M Jackson
Alessandro Antonello
Jaclyn Rushing
University of Oregon, USA Mark Carey, Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA. Email: carey@uoregon.edu
Abstract Glaciers are key icons of climate change and global environmental change. However, the relationships among gender, science, and glaciers – particularly related to epistemological questions about the production of glaciological knowledge – remain understudied. This paper thus proposes a feminist glaciology framework with four key components: 1) knowledge producers; (2) gendered science and knowledge; (3) systems of scientific domination; and (4) alternative representations of glaciers. 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.
I repeat: this is not a parody, and this cost you over $400,000. Let's get back to debunking that "ice is just ice" claim. Does ice listen? Let's find out.
I Introduction Glaciers are icons of global climate change, with common representations stripping them of social and cultural contexts to portray ice as simplified climate change yardsticks and thermometers. In geophysicist Henry Pollack’s articulation, 'Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it crosses the threshold from solid to liquid. It just melts' (Pollack, 2009: 114). This perspective appears consistently in public discourse, from media to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the 'ice is just ice' conceptualization contrasts sharply with conclusions by researchers such as Cruikshank (2005), who asks if glaciers listen [!!!], Orlove et al. (2008b), who analyze the cultural framing of glaciers [!], Carey (2007), who sees an endangered species narrative applied to glaciers [!!!], Jackson (2015), who exposes how glaciers are depicted as ruins, and Sörlin (2015), who refers to the present as a cryo-historical moment because ‘ice has become historical, i.e. that ice is an element of change and thus something that can be considered as part of society and of societal concern' (Sörlin, 2015: 327).
Nüsser and Baghel (2014) also reject the 'ice is just ice' assertion. Glaciers, they argue, 'have increasingly become contested and controversial objects of knowledge, susceptible to cultural framings as both dangerous and endangered landscapes' (Nüsser and Baghel, 2014: 13....
By the way, this is all as superficial as what a high-schooler would produce from Wikipedia searches -- assuming the high-schooler had access to academic paper databases instead of Wikipedia. But the glibness -- let me just snatch this from here, that from there -- is exactly the same. Think about what this sentence is actually saying. No, don't just say it's "Academese" -- it is that of course. But think about what it's actually saying.
Despite their perceived remoteness, glaciers are central sites -- often contested and multifaceted -- experiencing the effects of global change, where science, policy, knowledge, and society interact in dynamic social-ecological systems.That sentence is saying, if one reads it literally (and why shouldn't one?), that glaciers are the physical place where science, knowledge, and society interact in dynamic social-ecological systems. No, asshole. A basement carrel at your over-charging university is where these things interact (if they do interact). A glacier is were ice and earth interact. This is like reading Chevy Chase in Spies Like Us bullshitting his way through an academic conference with buzzwords and nonsense, and getting away with it -- humorously -- because none of his made-up nonsense is any more ridiculous than the made-up nonsense other assholes are saying. I still don't know if glaciers listen, but we're about to find out they don't like the b-slur -- because glaciers have gender. Come with me. Let's have a Science Adventure together.
... A critical but overlooked aspect of the human dimensions of glaciers and global change research is the relationship between gender and glaciers. While there has been relatively little research on gender and global environmental change in general (Moosa and Tuana, 2014; Arora-Jonsson, 2011)...There's a reason for that.
... there is even less from a feminist perspective that focuses on gender (understood here not as a male/female binary, but as a range of personal and social possibilities) ...Emmett Fitz-Hume nods with a smile.
...and also on power, justice, inequality, and knowledge production in the context of ice, glacier change, and glaciology (exceptions are Bloom et al., 2008; Williams and Golovnev, 2015; Hevly, 1996; Hulbe et al., 2010; Cruikshank, 2005). Feminist theories and critical epistemologies --– especially feminist political ecology --- and feminist postcolonial science studies – open up new perspectives and analyses of the history of glaciological knowledge.Yes, that "perspective" is the perspective of one who knows nothing about a field purporting to critique that field. And how could we ever live without that? What I'm kind of guessing is that these "critical epistemologies" [epistemology being the branch of philosophy concerned with how we know things] are chiefly necessary because feminists aren't actually "knowledge producers" of glacier studies; they're not going out into the field with the snow and ice, just like they ain't gettin' into STEM, period. No, these "criticial epistemologies" are necessary because feminists have nothing to say about glaciers because they're not scientists and don't even leave their campuses, ever. But they feel that there's something in the world they're not squawking about enough, and they've picked poor glaciers as the next thing they'll pointlessly and narcissistically inject themselves into. This is all about the fact that feminists aren't doing real science but want to be seen as doing things that look like science so they're going to sort of claim to be on the same plane as actual field glaciologists. One cannot be a critic without, implicitly, putting oneself above the thing being criticized. Yet another completely unwarranted assertion of superiority by feminists over, and I do love the stupidity of this word, actual "knowledge producers" and "knowlege production." Pretty much a straight up concession that they produce no knowledge -- they just sit back in their comfy digs at university and churn out Wikipedia Book Reports like this in critique of actual "knowlege producers"
Researchers in feminist political ecology and feminist geography (e.g. Sultana, 2014; Mollett and Faria, 2013; Elmhirst, 2011; Coddington, 2015) have also called for studies to move 'beyond gender', to include analyses of power, justice, and knowledge production as well as'‘to unsettle and challenge dominant assumptions' that are often embedded in Eurocentric knowledges (Harris, 2015: xx).Apparently we're moving into ice, too.
Given the prominent place of glaciers both within the social imaginary of climate change and in global environmental change research, a feminist approach has important present-day relevance for understanding the dynamic relationship between people and ice -- what Nüsser and Baghel (2015) refer to as the cryoscape.In what sense? What is the dynamic between people and ice? People actually stay well away from ice -- ice is death. So what dynamic do you mean? What dynamic could you mean? All you mean is the dynamic of ice in people's imaginations and the dynamic of ice and presumably male field glacier researchers. Look, Missy, if you want to really put you feminist perspective on ice, why don't you stop whining and pick up an ice-core screw and join the team in taking samples up in northern Finland?
As I said earlier: Someone is getting a little earned spotlight time due to actually being a "knowledge producer" by actually producing knowledge about glaciers, and feminists can't take this, because they should get an equal amount of the spotlight, despite producing no knowledge about anything, and particularly none about glaciers. Thus, the challenge to the "credibility and authority of glaciological knowledge." By the way, to even do this nonsense, they're going to have to re-define "glaciology" to not mean actual glaciology to mean things which are not glaciology -- because of course a non-expert can only challenge an expert by saying "Let's take a more global, less glacier-focused, view of glaciers." The only way a bullshitter wins is to move the conversation away from the tangible and real (of which he knows nothing) and into "meta" concerns (of which he also knows very little, but the subject itself is so bullshitty he can fight to a draw).
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.Why change what "glaciology" means? Here's a theory: Because there was government money available for actual hard-science, take-a-core-sample glaciology, and to get that money, you have to pretend to be doing "glaciology." So this crew comes in, files for the grant money claiming to be writing about glaciology, but then, in their introduction, changes the meaning of the word to talk about what they always talk about -- power relationships between the sexes. An academic hustle, sort of, then. This grant was provided by the National Science Foundation -- yet in that last paragraph, these people admit they're not going to be talking about the science of actual glaciology but of post-modern criticism about how glaciers are perceieved or talked about. One can say whatever one likes about post-modernism-- but this crap is definitely not science. So why is over $400,000 intended for actual science going towards this crap? Well, a grant was available, and the grant-writers wrote up something that would sort of sound "sciency." Okay, I'm done. I'll just leave you with this:
There are two levels one can read that at. The first level sees it as gobedlygook. This is the typical level people tell you to read this crap at, and then jeer and laugh at it. I urge you to look past that level, and really read it to understand what they're claiming. Because that's even worse, and even more ridiculous than actual meaningless gibberish. Whenever someone says "Let's not talk about X, let's talk about the idea of X," you can be sure of three things: 1. That person is almost entirely ignorant of X. 2. You are in for some next-level bullshit and cheap word-association hijinks to cover up for the fact that person is almost entirely ignorant of X. 3. That person is a narcissist who does not feel comfortable unless he is the center of attention, and considers it akin to psychical suicide to just admit "You know, I don't really know much about X; why don't you tell me what you know, so I can learn?"
II Why feminist glaciology? Feminist glaciology asks how knowledge related to glaciers is produced, circulated, and gains credibility and authority across time and space. It simultaneously brings to the forefront glacier knowledge that has been marginalized or deemed 'outside' of traditional glaciology. It asks how glaciers came to be meaningful and significant (through what ontological and epistemological process), as well as trying to destabilize underlying assumptions about ice and environment through the dismantling of a host of boundaries and binaries. The feminist lens is crucial given the historical marginalization of women, the importance of gender in glacier-related knowledges, and the ways in which systems of colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy co-constituted gendered science. Additionally, the feminist perspective seeks to uncover and embrace marginalized knowledges and alternative narratives, which are increasingly needed for effective global environmental change research, including glaciology (Castree et al., 2014; Hulme, 2011). A combination of feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology provide the intellectual foundation for feminist glaciology.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 03:32 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: Y-not (@moxiemom) at March 07, 2016 03:32 PM (t5zYU)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 03:33 PM (fizMZ)
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Posted by: m at March 07, 2016 03:35 PM (S/1cF)
That's because he reads the comments.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 07, 2016 03:35 PM (/tuJf)
Yeah, Teh Ewok totes hated this movie. And I hate Tim for beating me to the Ewok movie review joke.
Bastard.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 03:36 PM (hQAYN)
Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at March 07, 2016 03:36 PM (440T9)
Posted by: Ross Ice Shelf at March 07, 2016 03:36 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Zombie Michael Jackson at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (XtAzU)
Bastard.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 03:36 PM (hQAYN)
****
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (jpJUu)
About a third of the way through my migraine started intensifying at which point I stopped reading.
It's difficult to believe that some people are able to feed and clothe themselves each day.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (8PbKi)
What's the big deal? Just work in the word feminist in every sentence of your proposal and apply for a big bucks feminist grant.
It's gold, Jerry, feminist gold!
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (QPdNE)
So. They are going to study the impact of using Ice to replace the Frozen Banana?
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 03:38 PM (440T9)
Posted by: Roy at March 07, 2016 03:38 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: spongeworthy at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (mrfTe)
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (noWW6)
Briefly, if they can't do science, they criticize it, which makes them seem smarter than science itself.
They do the same thing with old-time morality, which they also claim to transcend.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (5o5ek)
And yet, The Plaster Casters were completely Self-Funded.
What a world.
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (440T9)
I urge you to look past that level, and really read it to understand what they're claiming.
Because that's even worse, and even more ridiculous than actual meaningless gibberish.
Authentic frontier gibberish.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Bizarro Amishdude at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (DYDUy)
which systems of colonialism, imperialism, and patriarchy co-constituted
gendered science
Pretty sure that BS won't melt any ice.
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 03:39 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 03:40 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse
And they do it with our money.
Posted by: Aviator at March 07, 2016 03:40 PM (c7vUv)
It's gold, Jerry, feminist gold!
***
It's as if it were created in one of those random word generators.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 03:40 PM (8PbKi)
Posted by: Stanley Fish at March 07, 2016 03:40 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (DYDUy)
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I think the people who dole out grant money are basically paying these "scholars" to go away. We used to do it with tuneless buskers who'd set up outside the restaurant where I worked.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Roy at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (VndSC)
circulated, and gains credibility and authority across time and space.
It simultaneously brings to the forefront glacier knowledge that has
been marginalized or deemed 'outside' of traditional glaciology."
The postmodernist lesbian feminist scholar Luce Irigaray has criticized Einstein's E=mc^2 as a "sexed equation" which should be shunned. Because it "privileges" one speed, _c_, above all other speeds. And privilege is of course an invention of the patriarchy.
I am not making this up. You could not make this stuff up.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Moron at the Glacier Bar at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Insane Feminist Posse at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (hHFOx)
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Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (INxoa)
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (/D5Lf)
made it this far without laughing, now I can't stop
Posted by: brak at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (MJuTN)
Posted by: Stanley Fish at March 07, 2016 03:40 PM (oFSUK)
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You didn't say "epistemological." No grant money for you.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: steevy at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (B48dK)
Why cant we have a feminist Ace for global environmental change research?
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (oKE6c)
Indubitably!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Bernie at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (oFSUK)
I sooooooooo need to go into grant writing.
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 07, 2016 03:43 PM (voOPb)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet carries ACME Brand Trump-Stoppers! at March 07, 2016 03:43 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:43 PM (oKE6c)
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Posted by: steevy at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (B48dK)
Posted by: Alan Sokal, publishing lauded absurd BS at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Moron at the Glacier Bar
Glacial Iced Vodka Tonic. That'll be $47.50.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (3epEl)
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (440T9)
Posted by: zombie Robert Falcon Scott at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: Equal Pay for All! at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (T01Xq)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:44 PM (oKE6c)
Are you suggesting we ditch her in the Antartic with a teletype?
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 03:45 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Viciously Bitter Feminist at March 07, 2016 03:45 PM (vA94g)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 03:45 PM (DYDUy)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (INxoa) "
Fellow Spartan grad here, but I was class of 2013. You visited campus lately? They've done a shitload of building down Euclid.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:45 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 07, 2016 03:45 PM (LUgeY)
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Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (fizMZ)
After being drummed out of his job at University College London by the radical feministas, over his having made a minor _en passant_ joke to which they took offense.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Harry Schanker at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (Z1gWl)
Some committee approved it, and we paid for it.
Get the government out of education.
Posted by: Iblis at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (9221z)
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (440T9)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Cantankerous at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (326rv)
Posted by: ManBearPig at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (iQIUe)
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
--Robert Frost
Posted by: zombie Robert Falcon Scott at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (9krrF)
About a third of the way through my migraine started intensifying at which point I stopped reading.
It's difficult to believe that some people are able to feed and clothe themselves each day.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 03:37 PM (8PbKi)
You got further than I did.
I have no idea how ace wrote this.
Valu-rite on the rocks? Or just swigging out of the bottle?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (voOPb)
Irigaray has criticized Einstein's E=mc^2 as a "sexed equation" which
should be shunned. Because it "privileges" one speed, _c_, above all
other speeds. And privilege is of course an invention of the patriarchy.
I am not making this up. You could not make this stuff up.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 03:41 PM (noWW6)
Ah, but Comrade Irigaray (?) forgets that the "c" has to be squared to pull its weight in the equation, so it is in fact the beneficiary of affirmative action.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: FishingWithFredo at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (INiW9)
Posted by: wth at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (HgMAr)
I'm cool with this.
Posted by: Couch Fucker at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (440T9)
Still, this was a lot less than the 'Why are Lesbians Fat' study.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (oFSUK)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at March 07, 2016 03:42 PM (mf5HN) "
I was a grant writer during a paid internship, once. It's fun, in a tedious and soul-crushing way. And it's very bankable if you get good at it.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:47 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (Fmupd)
Posted by: Cantankerous at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (326rv)
Dandelions? Shoe laces? Asphalt/concrete? Reefs?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (voOPb)
... and why are women of the liberal persuasion unable to see anything outside the filter of their vaginas?
Posted by: redbanzai at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (OrI3J)
Posted by: Vanilla Ice at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (DYDUy)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (JO9+V)
you can now check those three off of your Social Justice Warrior bingo card
), as well as trying to destabilize underlying assumptions about ice and environment through the dismantling of a host of boundaries and binaries
science isn't real, only feelings are real
Posted by: brak at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (MJuTN)
When your head's that far up your ass, you look out through any opening you can find.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (XtAzU)
Posted by: DaveA - predenounced for obvious joke at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: Hank at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (MCoXK)
...nice to see there's some young ('13!) morons out there!
...yes I have -- crazy amount of building up there...they need to keep going East on Euclid Ave...! Course the biggest news lately is about all of the robberies (assaults) in the area...not that this hasn't always been the case...at Case!
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (INxoa)
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (440T9)
Posted by: Starflower at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (/D5Lf)
gender studying glaciers there can't possibly be anything left for them
to genderize.
Posted by: Cantankerous at March 07, 2016 03:46 PM (326rv)
Dandelions? Shoe laces? Asphalt/concrete? Reefs?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 07, 2016 03:48 PM (voOPb)
Quantitative analysis, discrete calculus, non-Euclidean geometry?
Posted by: redbanzai at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (OrI3J)
Just read the article titles in the References for some big laughs. Example: "Climbing like a Girl: An Exemplary Adventure in Feminist Phenomenology"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (hQAYN)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (voOPb)
From my superficial examination, it reads like the researchers are talking about how men research glaciers, not about glaciers. Although there are some comments about glaciers and how men have misrepresented the truth about glaciers because the patriarchy is prejudiced.
And as important as this is, and it is important because it looks like fraud, but . . .if county mental health comes around to check on my welfare, they will have me committed to an institution. And so, I really need to clean house.
Ok, wait. Maybe Ace mention that. I need to reread the post.
Just as soon as I can find my car keys.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (MIyiE)
No. Why should they?
Postmodernism is primarily a reaction to the inability of post-Darwin western culture to provide convincing grounds for belief that 1) there is an objective reality 2) subject to laws that humans can make sense of.
Destroy the philosophical grounds for believing that science is possible, and you get lousy science. Pretty simple.
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 07, 2016 03:50 PM (bZ7mE)
That bitch Sahara hates them.
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (fizMZ)
Because we are here not just to destroy you but to humiliate you. It must be a final, complete victory over God, man, free will, and the very joy that animates the human soul. For that victory to be complete you must not simply be destroyed, but choose that destruction of your own volition. We will corrupt your institutions, your universities, we will turn your children against you, we will unmake and defile the very words you speak until your fellow men and women are specters, forms you can see but not touch or converse with. We will pollute your lives until you embrace the cleansing pain of fire as preferable to the grayness of the world we make. We will make death as sacred as you have made life, and life as foul to you as death.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (xuouz)
Shit of this nature has been going on for decades, at levels far above this example.
But when faced with an election to continue the status quo of grants just like this or the chance of radical, fundamental change, what is the recommendation?
Posted by: jwest at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (FrMyu)
Posted by: Devo at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (fbovC)
In Gaelic, it's called "oighearshruth."
In Czech, it's "ledovec."
In Feminazi, it's "man-hate." But then, most every word in Feminazi is "man-hate."
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (43OZ6)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (GGCsk)
Yeah! We Rule! So put that in your non-feminist-glacier-having pipe and smoke it!
(side note: Hey, Oregon Muse, let's get in on some of this sweet, sweet grant money!)
Posted by: Oregon Atarian at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (q509P)
1) For my sanity
2) Keep what little brain cells I have left intact.
Posted by: Cheri at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (fizMZ)
>>(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.
What in the ever living hell.
Ace, you did yoeman's work in critiquing this unspeakable dummy speak. Now take several hours to try to recover the IQ points that were destroyed by this article.
Posted by: chique d'afrique at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (Itgns)
Posted by: eman at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (mR7Es)
--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.
WTF? Are they stating the key to studying glaciers is the stories handed down about glaciers? Or are they referring to pseudo-science of which they intend to contribute? Also, are glaciers now people? And is banging ice, without written permission from the ice, now rape? Cuz that would that would piss me off.
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (0vdts)
I knew those glaciers wouldn't get away with their white patriarchy forever!
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (FrMyu)
...Preach brother!!!
Posted by: Right Rev. Al Sharpton at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (INxoa)
So "Frozen" is actually a documentary on human-ice interactions with a strong feminist "you go girl" take to it with the powerful female creating not life but rather ice. The actions of the Prince show how the patriarchy is jealous of the strong female need to create new ice and is eventually thwarted by the emotional bond between the two sisters and the ice that has been created.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet carries ACME Brand Trump-Stoppers! at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (xuouz)
Prof Gary Saul Morson wrote a book some years ago called "And Quiet Flows the Vodka" -- don't ask, about Russian literature, but he wrote (my recollection) that if a college field includes the word "studies" you will learn nothing about the subject but a lot about studies, eg, "mathematical studies" would cover many things but not mathematics. This allows people without the necessary intellectual ability to major in something that sounds like a real field of study.
Posted by: mallfly at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (JO9+V)
What a stupid, stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (KkVB6)
Posted by: Starflower at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (NjX7M)
Posted by: ThunderB at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (XtAzU)
gets my vote for thread winner
Posted by: Viciously Bitter Feminist at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (vA94g)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: #BLM at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (H9MG5)
Posted by: jwest at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (Zs4uk)
I'm not a feminist, but 400 grand is 400 grand.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (GGCsk)
Posted by: eman at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (mR7Es)
Posted by: Shoey at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (vA94g)
Posted by: HILLARY! at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (INxoa)
Those "scholars" must suck a mean d!ck.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (5GVKE)
Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (NjX7M)
Posted by: Cheri at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:49 PM (INxoa) "
Yeah, I still get the emergency alerts since I use my CWRU e-mail for professional purposes; even the new developments haven't really made it a safe area. Of course pushing past the 'bridge of no return' might help clean up the area, though I'm sure they'd be accused of gentrification. Of course, it only takes a few thugs to make it a dangerous area, and I think they correctly assume that most students walking alone at night have no means of self-defense.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (4/i9Y)
111 The painting is problematic in that it assumes the organic matter depicted self identifies as an oak, but as long as society continues to operate under the binary misconception of animal/plant we will continue to repress organics who truly do not find their identity within the photosynthnomative sphere of thinking and plantiarchy.
Posted by: NotCoach at March 03, 2016 10:45 AM (rsudF)
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (rsudF)
What a stupid time to be alive.
I wonder if the perpetrators are knowingly getting over on academia or if they are earnest.
I'd have more respect for the con-artist version.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (kKHcp)
Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (KkVB6)
...yes, yes and yes.
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (INxoa)
And if you complain it is just gibberish, it is either because:
a. you are a misogynist asshole
b. you are too stupid to understand the subject
How does one apply for work on one of these scams???
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (zEIsv)
Posted by: tu3031 at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (xuouz)
I could almost respect the authors if they were knowingly writing gibberish for the filthy lucre... sadly most of that $400,000 was likely eaten by "overhead" expenses.
Posted by: redbanzai at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (OrI3J)
Posted by: mallfly suPreme at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (qSIlh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (8ZskC)
Reality is a tool of the Patriarchy
Posted by: Grey Fox at March 07, 2016 03:57 PM (bZ7mE)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (xuouz) "
I was a late college entrant - I'm actually turning 29 this year. And I've been a moron since 2014, I just tuned out of politics for a while in an attempt to regain my sanity. (It didn't work)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:57 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: LegzzzAkimbo at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (659DL)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (JO9+V)
How do you determine the gender of a glacier? Come to think of it, I did once encounter a glacier with a dick on it. But it was my dick. I don't mean I knew the ice biblically - that would recreate the tongue-on-flagpole scene from A Christmas Story.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (/f6Nd)
Posted by: rocdoctom at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (nP2eK)
Posted by: Marcus T at March 07, 2016 03:54 PM (GGCsk)
Beaver habits? Uh oh...
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (oKE6c)
http://tinyurl.com/z2t4xpv
Posted by: m at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (S/1cF)
area, though I'm sure they'd be accused of gentrification.
Of course, it only takes a few thugs to make it a
dangerous area, and I think they correctly assume that most students
walking alone at night have no means of self-defense.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:55 PM (4/i9Y)
......bridge of no return...HEH!...GUN FREE ZONE!...
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (INxoa)
If that means what I think it means, than I am somewhat embarrassed to know what that means.
Perhaps it's a call for a simpler time, when plaster was readily available to women and they sought -- not to make an impression on the world -- but to make an impression of a man.
Posted by: mega machines at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (fbovC)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (oKE6c)
From my new book, How To Succeed In Jargoning, only $199.95 from O'Daniel University Press.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (oVJmc)
I'd have more respect for the con-artist version.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 07, 2016 03:56 PM (kKHcp) "
Sadly, I think most of them are earnest. That or they're spectacularly good at hiding their intentions.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:57 PM (4/i9Y)
In the end, all will bow to cathulhu.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 07, 2016 03:59 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 04:00 PM (440T9)
Because science is unfriendly... its hard... its either right or wrong...
While in Socialized Science.... like... Global Warming... the actual facts become unimportant... its the ability to bullshit yourself into Money and Political Power, that is important... all the while making yourself look important....
And even better... its a perpetual problem.. one that cannot be fixed because its does not really exist... so you don't have to actually come up with solutions!
Posted by: Don Q. at March 07, 2016 04:00 PM (RK8AH)
Posted by: wth at March 07, 2016 04:00 PM (HgMAr)
(1) Who is conducting research into the social perception issues that lie at the intersection of transgenderism and plate tectonics, and (2) is there any grant money that I can get for this?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Bully at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (6NjvM)
We need to do away with functional-centric, bugphobic attitudes in programming.
http://tinyurl.com/okpuy3q
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: chiefjaybob at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (vulYo)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (fizMZ)
Womyn's Glacier Hate Group
Posted by: Cheri at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (DL2i+)
That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women. 'I was fascinated by how two seemingly disparate issues could be so intimately linked through glacial ice,' Rushing said. 'I wanted to know more about the relationship between women and ice, so we pursued the topic from climate-change vulnerability to knowledge.'
Where's AtC with the eyeball heroin
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (/D5Lf)
ABSTACT
Are heterosexual women afraid to tell lesbians their are ideas are stupid, possibly retarded, and that their hijacking of the feminist agenda has led many men to date blow-up dolls and certain farm animals, in a Middle Eastern style relationship?
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (0vdts)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 03:57 PM (4/i9Y)
DAMNIT
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (xuouz)
I wish they would, quite literally, "inject" themselves into glaciers. Then in a few thousand years they can be examined like Otzi, as remnants of a bygone era.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (YJmuy)
Good on you and glad you're out there...last time I encountered a fellow Spartan was in Ohio City -- had a disagreement with a young woman about marriage (gay)...it wasn't pretty.
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (INxoa)
So, basically these idjits are saying that actual, scientific work and discovery on the subject of glaciers is somehow invalid because the people doing the work have penises instead of vaginas.
What a stupid, stupid time to be alive.
Posted by: Mandy P. (Not Patinkin), lurking lurker who lurks at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (KkVB6)
Even worse, one of the authors cited multiple times apparently has on an academic crusade to prove that hard sciences are bogus unless they also incorporate Eskimo oral traditions (translation: Injun tall tales told around the campfire) into the analysis.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (hQAYN)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: George Glacier at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet carries ACME Brand Trump-Stoppers! at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (hLRSq)
I believe it's a way to release funds to teachers who know nothing of STEM, which is nearly all of them. Get science funding to teach finger-painting and graffitti techniques, sure, whatever.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (/f6Nd)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:53 PM (xuouz)
Swing and a miss. Back out by the sidewalk for now.
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (kXzR8)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (zllbf)
Posted by: A Xelacier at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (hHFOx)
That's gonna hurt our marketing.
Posted by: Glacier Clear Bottled Water at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (440T9)
Posted by: wooga at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (vb0/F)
I'm surprised that there isn't a feminist approach to basic arithmetic and math -- concepts which surely were also the products of the "patriarchy." (Of course, now other commenters are going to tell me that there is such as thing as feminist math, and I'll need to drink a fifth of whiskey to make the pain go away).
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (y64uP)
Yeah..... Glaciers calve off Icebergs.... which are a Bitch....
ergo...
Posted by: Capt. Ed Smith, SS Titanic at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (RK8AH)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 03:58 PM (INxoa) "
Indeed, treading past the bridge at night is a good way to enter an existence-free zone, party of 1.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: Buffalbob at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (8nL8o)
Posted by: IC at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (F8o5a)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (0e/Wy)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (5GVKE)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 04:06 PM (fizMZ)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at March 07, 2016 04:06 PM (k8tEg)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (5GVKE)
*pulls 'Urban Dictionary' off the shelf
O.O
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet carries ACME Brand Trump-Stoppers! at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (hLRSq)
(1) Who is conducting research into the social perception issues that lie at the intersection of transgenderism and plate tectonics, and (2) is there any grant money that I can get for this?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:01 PM (8ZskC)
__________________________________________
I've already got it covered.
Patriarchal Dominance of Large Continental Plates Over Small Continental Plates as Demonstrated by Forced Subduction: Continental Plate Rape and its Harmful Effects on Society
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (rsudF)
A STEAM degree can be had from the University of Cleveland.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (5GVKE)
*snort*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (hQAYN)
Posted by: A.G. at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (rsai5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (8ZskC)
what is the National Science Foundation doing funding a humanities project?
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (xuouz) "
It's okay, they only let me on the lawn when it needs to be mowed. And they catcall me. But afterwards, they buy me a Coke and a penny candy, so all in all it's not a bad deal.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (4/i9Y)
I'll tell you about ice! For my hourly scotch it is a no-no, but for anything with vodka or gin I like cubed, and of course crushed with my margaritas!
>>Hic>>
Posted by: Hillary at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: Foreigner at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (RK8AH)
What a stupid time to be alive.
-------------------------
Truthfully, at their point on the continuum, they are shoulder-to-shoulder with the medieval retros who wasted megadynes of brain power on whether angels defecated. And yet they see themselves as the antidote to religious myth.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (5o5ek)
Awaiting the paper proposing that Heisenberg's dead cat is always female.
Posted by: Oopso Facto at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (FtrY1)
How much more screwed up and demented must granny get before even the press says "you know..."
Answer: no such threshhold exists, because the alternative is Bernie Sanders who is not in the race to seriously win. If Hillary goes down in flames, the Democrats do not have a plan B.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (y64uP)
Look, you're amongst the Horde. No need to justify drinking whiskey to us.
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (FrMyu)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 07, 2016 04:09 PM (YJmuy)
I read the other day that Moore's Law has been broken, and that the density of integrated circuits no longer doubles every couple of years. I guess the engineers ran up against the limits of physics, when the size of features started approaching the size of the atoms making up the substrate.
And I've sometimes wondered, looking at gobbledygook like this, and at string theory, which seems to me to be mathematical bullshit: Maybe we've reached peak knowledge. Maybe we've reached our pinnacle and there's no more room for advancement, at least dramatic advancement, more than minutiae at the margins of knowledge.
Posted by: Pastafarian at March 07, 2016 04:09 PM (LqrRo)
Posted by: Chicago Vota at March 07, 2016 04:09 PM (3T0tP)
Posted by: random lurker at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (+tRIN)
Posted by: bour3 at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (5x3+2)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (5GVKE)
Now you don't have to play hockey to call yourself a Cleveland STEAMer.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: jb at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (TRB7J)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:02 PM (INxoa) "
There were actually a decent amount of conservatives in my clubs, which I guess isn't too surprising since it's an engineering school. I was a humanities major though, so most of my classmates were red diaper dandies. I happily only had a couple hyper-leftist profs, though.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (4/i9Y)
What a stupid time to be alive.
-------------------------
Truthfully, at their point on the continuum, they are shoulder-to-shoulder with the medieval retros who wasted megadynes of brain power on whether angels defecated. And yet they see themselves as the antidote to religious myth.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (5o5ek)
And in the name of Diversity, we must celebrate the inane, insane, and stupid....
Posted by: Don Quixote at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (RK8AH)
I shit you not. My brain simply can not, or will not, process this shit. It's got to be related, somehow, to why I can't "appreciate" most of the art thread stuff.
Boring as hell to you ... but fascinating to me. In a WTF manner of speaking.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (p6cXT)
if it weren't for the medieval universities, we wouldn't have universities
the interesting question for me is who at NSF was told to write a CFP for this crap, and who led the team that scored this proposal
cut off the money, and this sort of shit dies a quick death
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (tT9mZ)
And for much the same reason: religious discussion. It sound stupid, but scholars were puzzling out how material and physical angels were or if they ate or not. None of it mattered, of course, but in a religion that encourages you to think, analyze, debate, think and study, its the kind of odd stuff that comes up in an academic setting.
Same deal for these folks, except their motivation is not reason and analysis but as Ace notes: how do we inject our radical politics into an area that stubbornly resists nonsense and irrationalism?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (y64uP)
________________________________________
Moving Towards a Feminist Epistemology of Mathematics
http://tinyurl.com/jlpaqlj
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (rsudF)
Whoever let this steaming pile through the screening process-
hell, whoever even glanced in the generally direction of this piece of crap needs to be fired from the NSF.
Marxist oriented jealousy and whining contributes nothing to science.
President Cruz or President Trump needs to audit this nonsense and cut the funding as appropriate.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (0cMkb)
Was at Weatherhead for MBA, in a work group of very nice women. Three are late 20's white girls, one is a late 20's african-american who grew up in the Mayfield area. On the first night of classes she gave a wonderful little briefing to the rest of the group:
"Look, I have to tell you, except for (GeoSTI) because he went to school here and is a guy, that there are streets surrounding this campus that you do not cross and don't travel alone around here at night. This is not suburbia."
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (0e/Wy)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (DYDUy)
--
I think that is how historians do it. But I am not a historian, nor an expert in the field, so I have to make allowances for historians who consult the original documents (those that still exist).
Something like what the lawyers do, this precedent, that court case where the judge found. et cetera and so forth, and ignore what the law says, because it doesn't say that, and this law doesn't apply in this case as precedent has shown. And so, what my client did is not a crime as described in the statute.
Of course, I am not a lawyer either.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (MIyiE)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (0vdts)
Posted by: Mega at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (hHFOx)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
I'm beginning to fear she'll wrangle him onto the ticket.
But that might just piss off the stupid Berniebots even more.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (xuouz)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: bour3 at March 07, 2016 04:10 PM (5x3+2)
Having the courage to take on the subject is what's going to win the Pulitzer.
Posted by: jwest at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (Zs4uk)
If that were the case, would women be less likely to embrace the notion of climate change??
Posted by: Wendy at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (bpemY)
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (0e/Wy)
The glacial valley is the vagina.
Thrusting ever-downward, the glacier rapes Gaia.
Oh the Hermanity!
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (y64uP)
Look, you're amongst the Horde. No need to justify drinking whiskey to us.
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (FrMyu)
Uh... there is a Feminist version of Math.... its called common core... with 'Friendly Numbers'.... where the answer is not as important as the long drawn out stupid procedure to get there...
Posted by: Don Quixote at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (RK8AH)
Posted by: Glacier queen at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (cbfNE)
Posted by: Timon at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (KSonr)
There is. And a Black Studies approach (the man stole it all from the Egyptians who were totes black back then). Postmodernist deconstruction and rejection of absolutes has been bashing against the walls of science and math for a decade or two now, finding little purchase but they see signs of hope in the future.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (39g3+)
You should be supporting the basic premise of this study, if not the actual findings.
Basically, they are saying that despite glaciology being a pure science, even a pure science can be effected by the prejudices of the "knowledge producers". These numbnutz think the prejudices that are effecting the pure science of glaciology has to do with gender (or whatever, blah, blah, blah). However, if you were to replace the prejudice of gender with the prejudice of political affiliation or political ideology, then you are getting somewhere.
Would a pure science where knowledge production was dominated by progressives be the same as a pure science where knowledge production was dominated by conservatives? How do these ingrained biases impact knowledge production in even pure sciences? I would say significantly.
Posted by: tommylotto at March 07, 2016 04:13 PM (A3a8d)
Posted by: Buford Gooch at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (bOtTO)
And where would our rich American tradition of federally-funded cowboy poetry be if everyone had this type of ugly cynicism?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (8ZskC)
"How can I be out of money? I still have checks left!"
- Blonde to bank teller
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (eDmrZ)
Maybe the real achievement here is denying the funds to groups doing actual science.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (/f6Nd)
Broseideon and BillyGoat, another Blue/Grey Spartan here (08, aeroeng).
Asked former roommate if the rocket engine he was designing for grad
work was male, female, or transgendered.
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (0e/Wy)
Spartan pride...!...have a friend who (shall remain nameless / department less), who keeps me up to speed with life at Case...the stories she tells me about some of the profs make me shake my head in disbelief...
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (INxoa)
http://tinyurl.com/jlpaqlj
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (rsudF)
Bottoms' up man.
Look, you're amongst the Horde. No need to justify drinking whiskey to us.
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (FrMyu)
I love it here. [hic]
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (y64uP)
I believe it's a way to release funds to teachers who know nothing of STEM, which is nearly all of them. Get science funding to teach finger-painting and graffitti techniques, sure, whatever.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 07, 2016 04:03 PM (/f6Nd)
Our little Guevara schooled his AP history teacher last week when the teacher brought up the national debt. Little Guevara was the only one - including the teacher - who knew it is $19 trillion.
He - wisely - did not ask the teacher my follow-up liberal-killer question: "how many zeroes in one trillion?" I've never received the correct answer from a liberal. Not once.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (oKE6c)
Potential subjects to which I can contribute:
- Crazy Cat Women: Are they really all that crazy?
- Floridians: Some Do (Not) Like It Hot
- Abstinence: The Plight of Chubby, Middle-Aged Women in a Seven Cat Household
- Middle Age Women: Why 50 Is Not The New 40
I'm taking bids.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 04:14 PM (8PbKi)
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (0vdts)
Boring as hell to you ... but fascinating to me. In a WTF manner of speaking.
Posted by: ScoggDog at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (p6cXT)
Yep. Mostly just read ace's comments on it.
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Lurker Primus at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (tHP3B)
Posted by: Pastafarian at March 07, 2016 04:09 PM (LqrRo)
There was speculation about this after the invention of the steam engine. And theoretical physics is by its nature weird and mostly wrong. I love phlogiston-based chemical theories from the 1700s. It takes repeated swings and misses to get it right.
There's more out there. We will eventually reach the stars.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (xuouz)
all they are taught to see is political bias and "injustice" everywhere. it's what they're trained to do.
they borrowed good money to learn how to complain and agitate, dammit!
so some a**hole in the federal government decided NSF needed a budget line for "studies that characterize and complain about the evil culture that led humanity to melt the ice caps and doom us all to a fiery death unless international socialists are given every power to run our lives"
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (TnUKj)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 03:52 PM (0vdts)
It might that that thing that she
Posted by: Country Singer at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (8Y7+f)
http://around.uoregon.edu/content/glaciers-melt-more-voices-research-are-needed
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (oKE6c)
And if that ain't feminine method, what is? It felt like the right answer!
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (39g3+)
Old people say the darnedest things.
Posted by: Oopso Facto at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: Anonymous-9 at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (gDfQc)
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (0vdts)
There was only one woman and she didn't stick around to complete the study. Granted, it was her that got the ball rolling for this dumbassery.
http://tinyurl.com/hkj3cgm
'After Rushing graduated and left for Oregon State University to pursue a graduate degree, Carey brought in M Jackson, a doctoral student in geography, and Alessandro Antonello, a postdoctoral research fellow in the honors college, to look deeper into the science of glacier studies and explore the gender issues.'
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (fizMZ)
--
That is usually just about the time all hell breaks loose.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (MIyiE)
Posted by: tbodie at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (FrMyu)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:15 PM (0vdts)
Dr Spank! Thank you so much for mentioning Mr Trump! I've been waiting for an opportunity to talk to you about his campaign and the great work he's doing unifying the country, but I couldn't seem to find the right time in this thread... what would I, and by extension our whole movement to Make America Great Again, do without you.
I wanted to talk to you specifically about Mr. Trump's plans regarding education! No, please, don't get up, I'll sit down...
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (xuouz)
Enjoy the war; the peace will be terrible.
Posted by: Professor Hubert Farnsworth at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (rznWS)
Bingo.
Totally off the rails.
You could certainly argue for feminist geography being a thing, because PART of geography is stuff like countries, and societies, and imports and exports, and other shit that is, IN FACT, socially constructed. But not glaciers. Not math. Not physics. Feminist "philosopher of science" Sandra Harding once referred to Newton's Principia Mathematica as "Newton's rape manual". No, I am not making that up. She is currently a "Distinguished Professor" at UCLA.
Posted by: That's Horus not Whore Us at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (eT0Ip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z9HgXLaeeM
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
--------------------
I dunno. Do you think Obama might have a Kerry or Biden behind up his sleeve? He's smart enough to know that the Clintons hate him and plan to raze his temple and build their own on its ruins.
If he winds up removing all the obstacles to her nomination, I bet it's only because he negotiates for a cut of the Clinton Foundation money after she becomes prez. How's that for a theory?
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: CrustyB at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (GvSpB)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 07, 2016 04:18 PM (3epEl)
Buford Gooch:
"This thing is so stupid I can't even read the fisking."
Well said!
And, to cite something I recall seeing in the comments in earlier times:
"does ace even read his own blog?"
The Horde batted this half-dead mouse around rather extensively in the morning news dump thread. Not a criticism!
In fact, mayhaps ace's fisking here will result in even more attention to this absurdity. But really folks, a country that can get to this point, has the tools and basis to *recover* from this point? I'm skeptical.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (QDnY+)
...true that. But academia always has its fair share of lefties...and they seem to be multiplying.
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (INxoa)
He doesn't identify as a guy, though.
Posted by: Professor Hubert Farnsworth at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:05 PM (0e/Wy) "
Hey, we're multiplying!
When that article came out recently again ranking Case as the #1 school in Ohio as far as mean graduate salary (or it might have been median, not sure), I joked that after years of standardized testing, it felt good to finally be dragging the average down for once. Variety is the spice of life, after all.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (DYDUy)
Women and children hardest hit!
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:19 PM (39g3+)
Feminist glaciology? Sure! Here's four hundred grand we borrowed from China.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 04:20 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Rokshox at March 07, 2016 04:20 PM (Ap82b)
Posted by: Dr. V. Ice, PhD at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: the real ch3 at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (wHYXk)
Posted by: chique d'afrique at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (Itgns)
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (0vdts)
When I was there (as a commuter), it was pretty different. Course Murray Hill and the inhabitants therein kind of kept the riff-raff on their heels a bit more........
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:22 PM (INxoa)
http://bit.ly/1BbYL4H
this is what your masters are paying attention to
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:22 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: Paul Ryan at March 07, 2016 04:22 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: dr frasier crane at March 07, 2016 04:22 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: Wendy at March 07, 2016 04:23 PM (bpemY)
I'm so hot for her, and she's so cold!
Put you hand on the heat, put you hand on the heat
C'mon baby let's go!
She's so cold, she's so cold, cold, she's so c-c-c-old!
But she's beautiful, though
Yeah she's so cold
She's so cold, she's so cold
She was born in an Artic zone . . .
Posted by: Mick Magma and the Stones at March 07, 2016 04:23 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:21 PM (0vdts)
Absolutely nothing, since the latter, in both cases, is in no way to related to the former, except in the warped, sick minds of individuals who inexplicably make way too much fucking money?
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:23 PM (xuouz)
Thank Oregon again...
http://tinyurl.com/jm78687
A Portrait of a Feminist Mathematics Classroom:
What Adolescent Girls Say About Mathematics,
Themselves, and Their Experiences in a 'Unique'
Learning Environment
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:23 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 07, 2016 04:16 PM (oKE6c)
_______________________________________
Patriarchal Dominance and Parallel Parking: How Inserting a Vehicle Into a Parking Slot is Akin to Rape, and Why Women are Naturally Adverse to It
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: goon at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (gy5kE)
I done played myself.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (xuouz)
These bitches have Glacier Envy.
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:11 PM (jBuUi)
---
Thanks for summing that up.
Posted by: SMFH at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (rlfds)
Tarzan no like Gorilla poon.
Posted by: Tarzan at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bill Nye, science dimwit at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (INxoa)
Posted by: Waldo Trout at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (M1MpJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2016 04:24 PM (r65B3)
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: The Khumbu Icefall at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (0vdts)
Actually, I suspect they already have a plan to 'turn' Trump in the same way counter intell turns a foreign agent.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (MIyiE)
Yeah she's so cold
She's so cold, she's so cold
She was born in an Artic zone . . .
Who would believe you were a beauty indeed
When the days get shorter and the nights get long
Lie awake when the rain comes
Nobody will know, when you're old
When you're old, nobody will know
that you was a beauty, a sweet sweet beauty
A sweet sweet beauty, but stone stone cold.....
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: goon at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (gy5kE)
In a valley
Writing bullshit on your dime
Lives a harpy
Academic
And her name is
Crazy-Time.
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:26 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: 1bulwetweft at March 07, 2016 04:26 PM (0rmIs)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at March 07, 2016 04:26 PM (QdAXQ)
easy
"lanes" are a construct of the Napoleonic Code
i.e. imperialism
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:26 PM (tT9mZ)
306 Saw the guy's Twitter profile. He calls himself a Glacier Historian. His next probing question: maybe Oezi the Iceman is transgender; after all, not all of him was found.
Posted by: Wendy at March 07, 2016 04:23 PM (bpemY)
Pretty sure his junk was there. Something gnawed on his left ass cheek.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 07, 2016 04:26 PM (+HxkQ)
Posted by: DanInMN at March 07, 2016 04:27 PM (h5ffp)
Sorry. ...in a row!!!
Posted by: andycanuck at March 07, 2016 04:27 PM (WOyz5)
But I did read Ace's comments all the way through.
There are no words.
Posted by: RM at March 07, 2016 04:27 PM (U3LtS)
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:12 PM (0e/Wy) "
Yeah, we were told similar things at undergrad orientation, though I already knew as a Cleveland native. IIRC I think it was something to the effect of "one side of the bridge is It's A Wonderful Life, the other side is Black Hawk Down; decide on your own which of those sounds safer."
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:28 PM (4/i9Y)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:28 PM (39g3+)
socialist: I can't produce anything of value, but I wish to force everyone to pay for it anyway.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 07, 2016 04:28 PM (3epEl)
"Revolution in 96 Hours"
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 04:28 PM (eDmrZ)
Posted by: DaveA
How many you got. What gender do they identify as? We need a study.
Posted by: Science Bitches, I mean, Science, Bitches! at March 07, 2016 04:29 PM (QdAXQ)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 07, 2016 04:29 PM (4KoRb)
propose all sorts of leftist bullshit
receive grant money
give grant money to colleagues doing valuable research
write fictitious "study" for the idiotic grant givers, and make it as stupid as possible
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:29 PM (tT9mZ)
---------------
Yes
You gotta do that right in my earaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Splat
Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 07, 2016 04:29 PM (kTF2Z)
As a youngster heading to college I spent a day in Union Station in Chicago. This is not, as people from that area know, the best part of town. I got bored with the station and decided to take a walk. I opened the door, looked around, and decided I liked bored over Mad Max wasteland.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (39g3+)
Nearly a half century ago there were those on both sides of the aisle who would have mocked this sort of expenditure with glee - I can only imagine what W. Proxmire would've made of this - but today, no one on The Hill even contemplates negative commentary on spending.
The Republic is in dire straits indeed.
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Revenant at March 07, 2016 04:04 PM (y64uP)
Someone did make a feminist programming language, I think. It was a well-executed parody, but some SJWs at GitHub decided it was NOT FUNNY AND VERY INAPPROPRIATE and pulled it.
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 04:25 PM (MIyiE)
Is Trump a Clinton plant, who agreed in a secret meeting with Bill Clinton this summer that everyone knows about to ruin the GOP and assure her election? Or is he a vain blowhard who really did decide on his own to run but is now poised to be turned, like a cheap spy?
Stay tuned at AOSHQ, official Cruz Control headquarters, to find out what the horde decides! He can't possibly mean what he says! That's actually not possible!
There's a word for how not possible it is!
It's impossible!
Stay tuned!
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (xuouz)
I'm liking the name 'Moland Spring' more and more.
Posted by: Mr. Pitt at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (440T9)
Sorry. ...in a row!!!
WHO WAS ROW!!!???
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (eDmrZ)
Because we are here not just to destroy you but to humiliate you. It must be a final, complete victory over God, man, free will, and the very joy that animates the human soul. For that victory to be complete you must not simply be destroyed, but choose that destruction of your own volition. We will corrupt your institutions, your universities, we will turn your children against you, we will unmake and defile the very words you speak until your fellow men and women are specters, forms you can see but not touch or converse with. We will pollute your lives until you embrace the cleansing pain of fire as preferable to the grayness of the world we make. We will make death as sacred as you have made life, and life as foul to you as death.
Posted by: Ghost of kari - certified inane at March 07, 2016 03:51 PM (xuouz)
---------------
Heh.
Good answer!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (T/5A0)
a Parking Slot is Akin to Rape, and Why Women are Naturally Adverse to
It"
I laughed. I denounce myself.
Thinking here of the infamous video of Eleanor Holmes Norton repeatedly trying and failing to master the abstruse geometric intricacies of the angled parking space.
Then finally bashing her car into the vehicle parked in the next spot, and trotting away without leaving a note or making a call. (For those of us unfortunate enough to be in the serf class, that's a textbook hit-and-run charge.)
Our _nomenklatura_ literally can't park a goddamn car and yet they arrogate unto themselves enormous power to run the smallest details of the lives of all of the rest of us.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Crabby cupcake at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (vansE)
And we're getting filtered.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (9krrF)
But they don't listen to me ♫
Posted by: clint eastwood painting his wagon... red with blood at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (5o5ek)
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Feminist science: Hysterical.
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (onb6N)
...ditto -- grew up nearby campus and knew the neighborhoods really well.
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (INxoa)
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (4KoRb)
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 04:17 PM (fizMZ)
There are also Glacier Bay brand toilets. Maybe there's a connection...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2016 04:32 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:32 PM (0mRoj)
And he was a Democrat. That tells you how far downhill they've gone, let alone the Republicans.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:32 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:22 PM (INxoa) "
I think Murray Hill is still a bit safer than the surrounding areas because the Italians see to it, though certainly not as 'hands-on' as back in the day. From what my folks tell me, the Cleveland Mafia hasn't been the same since Scalish died.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:32 PM (4/i9Y)
a. Cover up non-science knowledge.
b. Discount all existing glacier knowledge as the patriarchy so there's a need for more scholarship (by the authors, 'natch).
c. Get moar scholarships and grants for WOMEN to study glaciers.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:30 PM (iMxBJ)
________________________________________
The following is not parody:
ARE YOU READY FOR A FEMINIST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?
We need to do away with functional-centric, bugphobic attitudes in programming.
http://tinyurl.com/okpuy3q
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:07 PM (5o5ek)
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Feminist science: Hysterical.
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (onb6N)
Yup. And they yell and scream that they aren't taken seriously because patriarchy. News flash, cupcakes, you aren't taken seriously because you're ridiculous.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (1BQGO)
Every Dot On This Map Represents A House Where Refugees Are Living In Germany
Buh bye Germany
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (/D5Lf)
I saw this post and it struck me funny:
http://tinyurl.com/znqhpq6
So, the poster's theory is this:
1) The Islamists say that there never was a temple mount.
2) If true, this also discredits Christian theology.
3) Because left leaning Christians do not want to acknowledge that Islamsists are fantasists, they come close to disproving their own faith.
That seems simple enough, but the poster also worked what seemed to me to be some anti-catholic/christian in general stuff in there that made it tough for me to initially figure out what the hell he was trying to say.
Am I reading this right, or reading too much into it? Or not enough?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2016 04:34 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:32 PM (4/i9Y)
...HEH...!...among others!
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:34 PM (INxoa)
Maybe it's the waste of it -- the thought of lives wasted spinning sophistry, just so others can burn through several of their few precious hours alive reading it, because it was assigned reading.
Posted by: Pastafarian at March 07, 2016 04:34 PM (LqrRo)
Posted by: billygoat at March 07, 2016 04:31 PM (INxoa) "
It was always easy to see the far-off transplants, starting to bundle up in October. I'd always tease them a bit. "This your first winter? That's adorable."
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (4/i9Y)
No, I'm not speculating on a conspiracy theory. I'm talking about the psychology of redirecting an individual's principles or loyalty.
Rubio might be one example.
Or just give Trump the Newt Gingrich treatment. Or Bork'm.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (MIyiE)
Sounds like someone wanted to to sit at the Science table in the lunchroom but couldn't handle the coursework.
Posted by: Azathoth at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (oHWN4)
Please the agenda of the overlords, they will fund you.
And you please them by pushing lefty nonsense.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (1BQGO)
*****
Objection. Assumes facts most definitely not in evidence.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (jpJUu)
The problem for us is a simple morality issue. The only answer to stop this is sheer violence. A punch in the face, a shove down the stairs, beating them with a rubber hose. When that womyn's studies prof screams in your face about the patriarchy and penis culture, she needs to be knocked on her well-padded hind end.
But for us, the provocation and annoyance, the damage to society -- the wrong being committed -- does not rise to violent response. Its not bad enough for us to use violence over, because that's how our system of morals and principles is constructed.
And as Ra's Al-ghul said... criminals thrive on the indulgence of society. He wasn't wrong, but his solution was worse.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (39g3+)
I blame my childhood fascination with the works of Lewis Carroll:
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
Posted by: troyriser at March 07, 2016 04:35 PM (UWlp+)
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:36 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 07, 2016 04:36 PM (3epEl)
ARE YOU READY FOR A FEMINIST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (rsudF)
The writings of the one feminist quoted aren't, I guess. But the C Plus Equality project is exactly the one I mentioned, that got kicked off of GitHub. Glad to see some of it preserved. Stuff like this makes me laugh:
"All functions and procedures are now called lobbying. All lobbying must be run at the right level of privilege. Before returning anything they must check their privilege. "
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: Water at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (0vdts)
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (C9pBZ)
No, you're right its not that stupid.
Its stupider.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 04:33 PM (1BQGO)
ALWAYS bet on stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2016 04:38 PM (iHjB5)
my guess:
a program officer at NSF, who acts on the advisement of a faculty committee composed of people selected by the program officer
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:38 PM (tT9mZ)
Yes.
And it normalizes propaganda as 'truth.'
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:38 PM (oVJmc)
IIRC, the feminist who wrote it doesn't actually write code, but like these guys, critiques it and demands that the science/code be done according to *her* liking.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 04:38 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Crump/Truz at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (8EJen)
They really take fear of ice too far in Europe though. Just try to get a proper amount of ice for your G &T in London.
"Excuse me, do you have more than one ice cube on the premises? Could I have one or better yet, two more in my drink? I like my mixed drinks cold, yes, we Yanks are funny that way..."
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (u0lmX)
It's like the infrastructure issue the democrats are always whining about. we have plenty of money to build or re-build infrastructure. What we don't have is enough money to build the infrastructure AND service all the bullshit studies, public meetings, endless delays, environmental nutbaggery, etc.
Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (dEwvU)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (oVJmc)
Go through the whole rigmarole, and then drop the shoe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2016 04:40 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 04:40 PM (onb6N)
Right. By giving grants to, publishing, and supporting this nonsense, it normalizes and establishes nonsense. The process gives it credence and authority: it can't be stupid and wrong like you say: "They have a department of Feminist Glacial Studies at U of O, they wouldn't do that if it was all BS like you say."
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:40 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:37 PM (iMxBJ)
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Lol.
The code itself may be a joke, but some dim bulbs embraced it with everything they had. The following hoax is still one of my favorites:
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:41 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 07, 2016 04:41 PM (AroJD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (mw8Dm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 07, 2016 04:41 PM (AroJD)
And destruction. Lots and lots of destruction.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (0mRoj)
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This cancer thrives on money and attention. Deny it both.
Abolish the National Endowment for the Arts and whoever else supplies these cells. Then ignore their death-screams.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (5o5ek)
Ace, you administered a well-deserved evisceration...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (wtvvX)
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http://tinyurl.com/zvwkqew
Youtube. Dude is pretty funny.
Posted by: RWC - Team TTBTFW at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (/D5Lf)
Posted by: Crump/Truz at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (8EJen)
I've wondered that too. It sounds a little like "real science makes our girl brains hurt so we hate it and it must be bigoted somehow." That would be an incredibly patronizing and childish message, but I would not put it past these people to be so puerile.
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (iMxBJ)
And women get away with it grinning and supported by her friends and family. Men get jailed.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:42 PM (39g3+)
Go through the whole rigmarole, and then drop the shoe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2016 04:40 PM (/i7Ua)
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I see you haven't read too many professional scientific/medical journals lately.
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 04:43 PM (onb6N)
Posted by: San Andreas Fault at March 07, 2016 04:43 PM (maoCu)
Indeed. The taxes gathered on "road use" would more than pay for roads - but not roads/bike paths/trails/streetcars/subway/light rail combined.
Funny that.
Posted by: anon a mouse - now with more puppy! at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (C9pBZ)
The people who hand out the money and attention are in power, and will not be removed by our protestations and displeasure.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (39g3+)
*cough* Cecile Richards *cough*
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (wKcQA)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (39g3+)
... yet.
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: San Andreas Fault at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (maoCu)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (hQAYN)
Aren't you a Strike Slip Fault? Stop beating your wife!!
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (GgxVX)
Now let's talk about guns:
If I had it all to to over again I'd stick with my model 15, four speed loaders, an AR 15, a Remington 870, spend the rest on training, pay down my mortgage and lay off the stupid gun pundits.
Ace, you're the best!
Posted by: DM at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (j/tOh)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (YJmuy)
You forgot:
(d) moar grants for women studying women obsessing over the lack of women studying glaciers.*
*no actual glaciers actually get studied
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet carries ACME Brand Trump-Stoppers! at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (NOIQH)
Georgia HB859, the Campus Carry Bill, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with no amendments this afternoon on a 5-3 vote. It'll now go to the Rules Committee to be scheduled for a floor vote. Assuming it passes there, it'll then go to Governor Deal.
Posted by: Country Singer at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (8Y7+f)
Posted by: garrett at March 07, 2016 04:45 PM (440T9)
Posted by: TexasJew at March 07, 2016 04:46 PM (G1XE+)
*cough* Cecile Richards *cough*
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 04:44 PM (0mRoj)
__________________________________________
Rachel Carson
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:46 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 07, 2016 03:33 PM (KUaJL)
Don't be so sure.
Could be a guy.
Could be a guy changed to a gal.
Could be a gal changed to a guy.
Posted by: Caitlin Jenner at March 07, 2016 04:46 PM (SXU3d)
Posted by: Drill_Thrawl at March 07, 2016 04:46 PM (eJV7c)
- there are these concepts of male and female
- we use these and other words like "his" and "her"
- words accumulate denotations and connotations
- these denotations and connotations have a history
- these histories have affected a variety of things, including, apparently, the fecking NSF
- to study gender is to study how these concepts and words have produced effects
- and to write about it for money
I don't have a problem with this
what I have a problem with is assuming this kind of study would have anything remotely valuable to say about glaciers themselves
which is what "glaciology" used to mean, before activists corrupted the NSF
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:47 PM (tT9mZ)
Posted by: Soona at March 07, 2016 04:43 PM (onb6N)
No, not lately. But, you see, they have the style down pat. What better way to throw a monkey wrench into the whole corrupt fund-granting racket than to write a bullshit proposal, and get it funded?
Scam the scammers. If this does turn out to be an epic troll, the hilarity will be wonderful.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2016 04:47 PM (/i7Ua)
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 04:47 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2016 04:48 PM (mw8Dm)
...and the bartender says, "Get out! We don't serve ice holes here!"
Posted by: andycanuck at March 07, 2016 04:48 PM (WOyz5)
Cyclists training in South Africa chased by ostrich.
It's labeled as "funny". Probably wouldn't be funny if the ostrich caught up with them, and I imagine that the cyclists were pedaling like hell to get away from it.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/zj86j52
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 04:48 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at March 07, 2016 04:39 PM (dEwvU)
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This is why I want Prezident Trump to hire a dream team AND TAKE THEIR ADVICE.
Rick Perry: Secretary of Cutting Shit
Sarah Palin (yes): Secretary of Reducing the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, and Homeland Security to a Laptop and a Card Table
Ben Carson: Secretary of Fox in the Obamacare Henhouse
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:48 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 04:48 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: dr sheldon cooper at March 07, 2016 04:49 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: mikeyslaw at March 07, 2016 04:49 PM (Wkdli)
It's a big-assed chunk of ice. There's a bunch of them where it's cold.
WTF else is there to know? This ain't rocket surgery.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 07, 2016 04:49 PM (LUgeY)
Funny thing is, campus police are based on the opposite side. Felt like I was most put in danger paying a parking ticket.
Posted by: GeoSTI at March 07, 2016 04:50 PM (0e/Wy)
110 billion.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 04:50 PM (DYDUy)
We regret to inform you that the addressees listed on your package have refused delivery.
CONTENTS:
1 (One) Republic
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 07, 2016 04:50 PM (A/3fN)
And we're anti-science?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (45oDG)
Posted by: Weasel at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (e3bId)
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (tT9mZ)
It's glacier science!
Posted by: Suppressed Flasher at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (X+nFp)
ie. a politicized or religionocentric or corrupt interpretation of reality.
Anyone, and I mean, anyone who even entertains this complete nonsense is no scientist,
and they nee to lose their job. No ifs ands or buts.
You want DEVOlution?
Gentlemen, this is devolution manifest.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (0cMkb)
stop this is sheer violence. A punch in the face, a shove down the
stairs, beating them with a rubber hose. When that womyn's studies prof
screams in your face about the patriarchy and penis culture, she needs
to be knocked on her well-padded hind end.
But for us, the provocation and annoyance, the damage to society --
the wrong being committed -- does not rise to violent response. Its not
bad enough for us to use violence over, because that's how our system
of morals and principles is constructed."
It's the Fulda Gap scenario. Until NATO's technology overwhelmed the Soviets, NATO only had two plans: (1) flee; (2) go nuclear. It was also why the Pact was willing to commit to "No First Use" - they didn't need anything beyond conventional arms to win.
In our context, the Right has limited itself to "flee". And so, by doing nothing, we lose everything. On the plus side, the Left will lose to Islam for the same reason. The Endarkenment continues apace.
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (rznWS)
Posted by: yobobbyb at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (BKGXB)
When you're talking about the humanities, at least, the problem with coming up with an "original" topic when it comes to Shakespeare or the Napoleonic Wars or the plays of Euripides is that people have been writing about this things for centuries. Can you think of anything profound to say about Othello that wasn't said by someone else 200 years ago?
So at first these "scholars" started shoehorning the classics into Marxist/feminist/gay/minority perspectives. Then, when that well went dry, they decided that well, Western Civ sucks anyway as to go, so they dropped the dead white males in favor of "diversity." Now they're applying their silly perspectives to things like glaciers and probably to sidewalk cracks and bubble gum chewing as well.
They have gone deeply in debt in order to - say nothing.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (mw8Dm)
Posted by: the commenters who say 'nee' at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (WOyz5)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (iQIUe)
Ohhhhhh!
Posted by: Andrew Ice Clay at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (H9MG5)
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That's why I hope Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are in the next administration. I made a funny (intentional, anyway) post about it above, but the serious version is something like Rand and Cruz depowering these people.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: DanMan at March 07, 2016 04:53 PM (RusNE)
Posted by: yobobbyb at March 07, 2016 04:52 PM (BKGXB)
Then your doing it wrong. Didn't she ever mention that?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 07, 2016 04:53 PM (mw8Dm)
I think an Ostrich can exceed 40mph. So I don't think they could outrun it.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 04:53 PM (DYDUy)
Rachel Carson
Cecile Richards
...didn't kill people. They killed souls of men who then went on to kill.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:54 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:54 PM (oVJmc)
At the bottom of the page: "Showing 10 of 28,637".
28,637 academic papers in this database, in which the word "gendered" was significant. "Waste" isn't the right word; this is decadence.
Posted by: Pastafarian at March 07, 2016 04:54 PM (LqrRo)
Posted by: FaCubeItches at March 07, 2016 04:51 PM (rznWS)
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Srsly, what do these people want? Are they going to continue until we're all sitting in our own shit and then say "Isn't this better now?"
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:54 PM (5o5ek)
Rachel Carson
Cecile Richards
...didn't kill people. They killed souls of men who then went on to kill.
Well there is the question of all those aborted babies and brown folks who died from malaria, but still.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 04:55 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: donna at March 07, 2016 04:55 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:55 PM (jBuUi)
Naked woman goes on rampage through Waffle House
http://tinyurl.com/huwwfc3
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 07, 2016 04:55 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:56 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Areth the fire starter at March 07, 2016 04:56 PM (64gGw)
Posted by: Picric at March 07, 2016 04:56 PM (QnQ+g)
i'd respectfully suggest that profundity has little to do with how scholarly conversations in the humanities work
professors are rewarded for saying novel things, not profound things
"profound" sounds positively antique
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:56 PM (tT9mZ)
Whoever wasted our tax monies on this is on the same level as that gaggle of imbeciles who protested so mightily over the graduation card that contained the phrase, "Black hole" a few years back.
They need a good lashing. On PPV.
Make stupidity painful and they'll stop.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 07, 2016 04:57 PM (LUgeY)
Sometimes that Alps.
They should listen to Rushmore.
Posted by: Mortimer at March 07, 2016 04:57 PM (maoCu)
Even after Trump gets elected, all these people will still have jobs.
They are a metastacized cancer that can't be removed.
We are so boned.
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 04:57 PM (jBuUi)
Naked woman goes on rampage through Waffle House
Aaaaagh! Don't click on the pic!
I think she's Klingon!
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Areth the fire starter at March 07, 2016 04:56 PM (64gGw)
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I'm sure they've noticed, too. And I'm sure that lots of academic eyes are lighting up over it.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Homo Erectus at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (8ZskC)
Rachel Carson
Cecile Richards
...didn't kill people. They killed souls of men who then went on to kill.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:54 PM (39g3+)
_____________________________________________
Fine. Belle Gunness.
Posted by: NotCoach at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (rsudF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (w4NZ8)
Sometimes that Alps.
Must be mountain time.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (YJmuy)
"We gave you fire, metallurgy, the pyramids, gunpowder, the renaissance, E=MC2 for gosh sakes! And this is what you did what that?"
*shakes heads sadly* *slumps dejectedly into pod*
"Kang! Kodos! Burn it with fire! Nuke the entire planet from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster browsing Bravely at March 07, 2016 04:59 PM (uURQL)
and that number will rise because those papers are rewarded as part of a professional tenure system
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 04:59 PM (tT9mZ)
Well yeah, that's the fatal flaw of the PhD system: after a while there's nothing rational, true, or beneficial to say about a given topic so requiring something truly new eventually runs the well dry and stupid, crazy crap starts coming out. Abraham Lincoln was a woman! Napoleon was left handed and epileptic! Jesus was homosexual! On and on.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 04:59 PM (39g3+)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pb7c4sq
Oh yes, there is plenty to be cut from the federal budget.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: zombie Dennis Erectus at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (YJmuy)
At 400k per paper that is 11 point 2 times ten to the ninth. Probably a meaningless calculation.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (MIyiE)
The tragedy?
Even after Trump gets elected, all these people will still have jobs.
They are a metastacized cancer that can't be removed.
We are so boned.
Posted by: zombie
yep.
Only Math can save us now.
Posted by: Mortimer at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (maoCu)
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (tT9mZ)
Nah. They'll complain our shit smells less and is more comfy.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Restorationist at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (9krrF)
Dude, how about we write a paper on the migratory habits of the drunk female, both pre-taco bell and post-taco bell drunk-food-binge. Our angle could be the varying possibility of coitus interuptus via foodus eruptus.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (2PHKP)
Posted by: yobobbyb at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (BKGXB)
Will Rick remember which departments he is supposed to cut?
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Math, the Iron Law at March 07, 2016 05:02 PM (9krrF)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hs6y3ly
whitehouse.gov
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:02 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 04:58 PM (1BQGO)
Well, yes. This is the wages of a successful, but unconfident culture. If our culture was not successful, these idiots would not have time or money to dream up this drek. If our culture was confident, no one would take them seriously.
I think an update should be made to the old Chinese curse: "May you live in stupid times."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2016 05:02 PM (iHjB5)
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Funny, I called them a cancer a coupla dozen posts above.
But I think they can be gotten rid of. The thing is, when you deny them, they scream for a bit, and then they wilt. How well do you think these people would do after four years of deprivation? After eight?
Someone at some university did this recently. Just ignored the Black Lives Matter babies. They went away.
What do you think of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in a Trump administration? Dead-ender libertarians with nothing to lose.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (5o5ek)
And be noticed by the rage mob?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (YJmuy)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pb7c4sq
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel
Are you seriously suggesting that our civilization has sufficient numbers of flamboyantly homosexual farmers? HATE SEPEECH
Posted by: zombie at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (jBuUi)
Even after Trump gets elected, all these people will still have jobs.
They are a metastacized cancer that can't be removed.
We are so boned.
Posted by: zombie
yep.
Only Math can save us now.
Burn baby burn!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (dLr9j)
Will Rick remember which departments he is supposed to cut?
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (noWW6)
"Five!"
"No, Three!"
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (39g3+)
Grant writing is an art, but primarily a racket. Honestly, bilking the system is a job.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:03 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 07, 2016 05:04 PM (6n332)
Are you seriously suggesting that our civilization has sufficient numbers of flamboyantly homosexual farmers? HATE SEPEECH
Priscilla, Queen of the Prarie
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:04 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (noWW6)
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No, he'll forget, so he'll just cut 'em all for good measure.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:04 PM (5o5ek)
Will Rick remember which departments he is supposed to cut?
Posted by: torquewrench at March 07, 2016 05:01 PM (noWW6)
Should be pretty easy for him: all of them.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 07, 2016 05:04 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 05:06 PM (8PbKi)
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Google up Melissa Click's resume. It's not a hoax.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:06 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: Mortimer at March 07, 2016 05:06 PM (maoCu)
Posted by: Corona at March 07, 2016 05:07 PM (ragzU)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:08 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Jacob's Step Stool at March 07, 2016 05:08 PM (sqs5K)
Oof.
https://t.co/vGzrc5bTNR
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 07, 2016 05:06 PM (8PbKi)
Never go full retard.
Posted by: Kirk Lazarus at March 07, 2016 05:08 PM (iHjB5)
Posted by: Corona at March 07, 2016 05:07 PM (ragzU)
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Here's the Great Minds confluence of the day, cuz I said (wordier)
at their point on the continuum, they are shoulder-to-shoulder with the medieval retros who wasted megadynes of brain power on whether angels defecated. And yet they see themselves as the antidote to religious myth.
So, yeah, we need a new thread.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:08 PM (5o5ek)
Make them buy a tablet and we can cut the card table too.
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 05:09 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2016 05:10 PM (39g3+)
send them to colleges that teach Shakespeare
vote with your feet
Posted by: Feh at March 07, 2016 05:00 PM (tT9mZ)
I used to know a lawyer who went to Thomas Aquinas College in Southern Cali for his BA. No majors - just the Great Books program for everyone. He said he loved it - it really taught him how to reason and debate.
A Great Books program is not practical in the sense that a STEM major is, but it's no more impractical than this stupid trendy crap and at least you learn how to think and you read classics instead of dreck.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at March 07, 2016 05:10 PM (u0lmX)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hs6y3ly
whitehouse.gov
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:02 PM (oVJmc)
Bizarro World again
Ashlee Davis is the Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Secretary for Civil Rights at Agriculture? Wow, we really do have commissars running this country. Into the ground.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 07, 2016 05:10 PM (45oDG)
female, both pre-taco bell and post-taco bell drunk-food-binge. Our
angle could be the varying possibility of coitus interuptus via foodus
eruptus.
You forgot the patriarchy. There's gotta be a raping, man-hating hook in there somewhere...
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:10 PM (NOIQH)
Perfectly explains their epistemology.
Just. .. madness.
Posted by: Sugar Plum Fairy #176-671 at March 07, 2016 05:11 PM (hnCis)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 07, 2016 05:12 PM (hLHwu)
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:12 PM (5o5ek)
A little GOP House belt tightening might go a long way.
What? It could happen.
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 05:13 PM (DL2i+)
female, both pre-taco bell and post-taco bell drunk-food-binge. Our
angle could be the varying possibility of coitus interuptus via foodus
eruptus.
You forgot the patriarchy. There's gotta be a raping, man-hating hook in there somewhere...
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:10 PM (NOIQH)
Because of its phallic nature, eating a burrito is a sign of internalizing the inevitability of her being raped, because patriarchy.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 05:13 PM (0mRoj)
The patriarchy raped by digestive tract!
Posted by: Ring of Fire at March 07, 2016 05:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: the morigu at March 07, 2016 05:14 PM (X4/8S)
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2016 05:14 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: SH at March 07, 2016 05:15 PM (gmeXX)
Depends - have you had enough puking for the day?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:15 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Vanilla Ice at March 07, 2016 05:15 PM (SiyyF)
I'm sorry; That sounds like a stupid term as if they're talking about bird colonies or communes People live in communities, Some may be rural, Some may be LGBT, but the fact it has to be termed "Rural LGBT communities" is ridiculous.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:17 PM (w4NZ8)
But the 'ice is just ice' conceptualization contrasts sharply with conclusions by researchers such as Cruikshank (2005), who asks if glaciers listen...
I bet they listen to a cool radio station.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 07, 2016 05:17 PM (LUgeY)
What? It could happen.
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 05:13 PM (DL2i+)
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I prefer to believe this. I really do. The fucking Berlin Wall fell, George Washington wasted the Brits after crossing the Delaware, Reagan told the Air Traffic Controllers Union to get lost.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:18 PM (5o5ek)
All of those things are far more plausible than a politician giving up any power.
Posted by: Ring of Fire at March 07, 2016 05:19 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: WOPR at March 07, 2016 05:20 PM (LTDSy)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:15 PM (NOIQH)
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All-ritey then. Netflix it is.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:21 PM (5o5ek)
Yes, when you consider that gay/lesbians make up only 3-4% of the population (not 10%, their claim based on Kinsey, IIRC) + transgender <1%.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:21 PM (NOIQH)
Can't get past the part about this being utter bullshit, thus deserving the point, laugh and shake the head reaction.
Loudly and repeatedly.
Really unsure how you managed to write on this without breaking down into uncontrollable laughter, Ace.
Kudos on that.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2016 05:21 PM (P/8aq)
Posted by: WOPR
Protecting our phony-balony jobs is more important.
Posted by: William J. Le Petomane at March 07, 2016 05:22 PM (SiyyF)
I'm sorry; That sounds like a stupid term as if they're talking about bird colonies or communes People live in communities, Some may be rural, Some may be LGBT, but the fact it has to be termed "Rural LGBT communities" is ridiculous.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:17 PM (w4NZ
So what you're saying is this is just another colossal waste of tax payer money for another phony lefty cause and probably overrun with a bunch lefty gay activists using this to collect a huge salary to boot.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 07, 2016 05:23 PM (45oDG)
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Yeah, that's why I say we need some libertarian dead-enders in the next administration. People who love to kill parasites.
Posted by: iforgot at March 07, 2016 05:24 PM (5o5ek)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:24 PM (w4NZ8)
Such a field would probably link with this shit and purge nonbelievers.
Posted by: tsrblke rogue bioethicist (Tablet) at March 07, 2016 05:25 PM (a8eFL)
Posted by: no good deed at March 07, 2016 05:26 PM (GgxVX)
"snatch" ... talking about a feminist paper. Such male chauvinist pig hostility!
Meanwhile,I wonder why guys (ostensibly) wrote this paper and wouldn't let the women handle the subject of glacier gashes.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 07, 2016 05:26 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:24 PM (w4NZ
Can't I just tuck?
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (0mRoj)
Well, actually, that was what you said, :^) but I agree with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: Splunge at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (iMxBJ)
Posted by: Elsa82 at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (FxLXV)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (fizMZ)
And using it to funnel money to fellow travellers.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:27 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: no good deed
It's best to move around FREQUENTLY.
Posted by: nervous sheep at March 07, 2016 05:28 PM (SiyyF)
Posted by: Nora at Burn It Down dot com at March 07, 2016 05:29 PM (Trq86)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 07, 2016 05:29 PM (qCMvj)
This remind me of that psych illness where people believe they have personal and often sexual relationships with inanimate objects. There was a nut in the USAF academy who was in love with her jet. She was kicked out of the academy and then fell in love with the Eiffel Tower.
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 05:29 PM (iQIUe)
They laughed all the way to the bank.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:29 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: pep at March 07, 2016 05:30 PM (LAe3v)
Well, maybe, Just wear a dress, a wig,ask loudly for the gender neutral bathroom and make sure your grant proposal has a feminine name as author.
There's some Adam Corolla video where's he dressed in a bad blonde wig pretending to be a woman crashing some leftist event. It's rather funny.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:30 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: Fritz at March 07, 2016 05:30 PM (37OkS)
Somebody has to have time to write internet newsletters.
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 05:30 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: James T Kirk at March 07, 2016 05:30 PM (rJEUr)
Posted by: Wooden Pecker at March 07, 2016 05:31 PM (qul7b)
I want to grind her glacier into millions of snowcones...
IYKWIM...
Posted by: Wooden Pecker at March 07, 2016 05:31 PM (qul7b)
There's a shaved ice joke in there somewhere...
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 05:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 05:32 PM (iQIUe)
IYKWIM...
Posted by: Wooden Pecker a
You will come away splintered.
Posted by: The Glacier at March 07, 2016 05:34 PM (XtAzU)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 05:34 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:34 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 05:32 PM (iQIUe)
When she does a train, it's literal.
Posted by: Insomniac at March 07, 2016 05:35 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Wooden Pecker at March 07, 2016 05:37 PM (qul7b)
Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at March 07, 2016 02:17 PM
The Cowboys, John Wayne and a very young crew of drovers, doesn't seem quite right either. Wayne's character goes to get his old friend (Pickens) because he needs backup to take down a gang. Pickens woman goes with them because there is going to be a gunfight and she won't let her man go without her, and carries her weight in the gunfight.
Stagecoach is too old. This was a fairly recent (for me that's eighties-nineties) movie.
It's odd that the only part I can remember is the gunfight.
Posted by: Gordon Lastherder at March 07, 2016 02:26 PM (MIyiE)
Couldn't be 80s/90s because Wayne died June 11, 1979. His last movie, The Shootist, was released on August 20,1976.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at March 07, 2016 05:37 PM (kXoT0)
Talk about a microaggression.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at March 07, 2016 05:34 PM (oVJmc)
America's number one loaded weapon
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 07, 2016 05:38 PM (45oDG)
http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/
uploads/2016/02/random-pictures-4114.jpg
Then some man has to come along and ram the situation.
http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/
uploads/2016/02/random-pictures-3810.jpg
Posted by: DaveA at March 07, 2016 05:38 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 07, 2016 05:38 PM (NOIQH)
Hey Glacier,
If you wont tell I have a wooden pecker I won't tell that you have splinters in your leading edge...
Posted by: Wooden Pecker at March 07, 2016 05:39 PM (qul7b)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at March 07, 2016 05:39 PM (kXoT0)
The glove compartment bar oddly didn't make it to be a standard feature in cars.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2016 05:39 PM (XtAzU)
"I still think this is a hoax, nobody could be that worthless."
I take that back. I just checked my FB count. People are that stupid and worthless. What was I thinking?
Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at March 07, 2016 05:40 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at March 07, 2016 05:40 PM (DYDUy)
Posted by: The Political Hat at March 07, 2016 05:41 PM (vBeA5)
Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2016 05:41 PM (fizMZ)
From the midnite sun where the hot springs flow
The Hammer of the Gods
Will drive our ships to new lands
To join the 'horde singing and crying
Valhalla I'm coming
Ah Ah
Posted by: Glacier Immigrant at March 07, 2016 05:41 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Fritz at March 07, 2016 05:41 PM (37OkS)
Posted by: nervous sheep at March 07, 2016 05:41 PM (SiyyF)
Reminds me of a biz associate who used to call a another associate often. The other guy was named Dick and had a cute secretary.
My friend would call and ask, "Hi Jill, is Dick in or out?"
Then he'd try not to laugh out loud. He thought it was very funny.
Posted by: Meremortal at March 07, 2016 05:42 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Feminist Bruce With a Feminist Wang! at March 07, 2016 05:42 PM (iQIUe)
Excerpt from the link:
In 1996 Alan Sokal published a now famous article : Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity in the postmodern journal Social Text. Immediately afterwards he revealed the paper to be an elaborate hoax engineered to expose the bankruptcy of postmodernist discourse about science. In Sokal's own words, it was designed to demonstrate that "a leading North American journal of cultural studies . . . would publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if
(a) it contained the right buzzwords and
(b) flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2016 05:42 PM (n22zQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:42 PM (w4NZ8)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 07, 2016 05:43 PM (XtAzU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:42 PM (w4NZ
*****
James O' Keefe. Project Veritas.
Posted by: Tim in GA at March 07, 2016 05:45 PM (jpJUu)
Reminds me of the character in Mean Girls who is desperately trying to make "Fetch" a thing.
Posted by: Clive at March 07, 2016 05:47 PM (WC1gC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 07, 2016 05:47 PM (w4NZ8)
In the crevasse?
She's not that kind of gully!
Posted by: Mortimer at March 07, 2016 05:48 PM (maoCu)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes now franchising Lulu Snackbars at March 07, 2016 05:37 PM (kXoT0)
Are we discussing the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid?
YouTube is blocked but here's the Wikipedia synopsis: http://tinyurl.com/h8ffqsx
Posted by: jwb7605 at March 07, 2016 05:49 PM (DofIg)
Posted by: FemScientist at March 07, 2016 05:51 PM (LMcFk)
Posted by: Pjf at March 07, 2016 05:52 PM (ffo2W)
The place to do something about it is at the state level where the funding for state university budgets are decided. I admit that Oregon will continue to fund this sort of crap but that is the beauty of federalism. There are 30 Republican governors. Many of them have Republican legislatures. Even if half of them are squishy, the others can cut off funding for this stupid shit, saving their taxpayers money, forcing the people who make a living creating this garbage to either find a real job in the private sector or to compete for one of the shrinking number of leftwing bullshit jobs, forcing some other leftwinger into the private sector economy.
In addition, by reducing the head count of leftwing faculty, it reduces, by some marginal amount, the social pressure on faculty who would otherwise be normal, decent people instead of leftwing myrmidons. As Milton Friedman said, you want a system where bad people do good things because that is what the incentives are. We should try to reduce the incentives, at least in state funded schools, for otherwise good people to do bad things.
Posted by: obnoxious ahole at March 07, 2016 05:52 PM (MpvuV)
Posted by: stuiec at March 07, 2016 05:53 PM (eetvJ)
Posted by: WI-granny at March 07, 2016 05:55 PM (OYvRq)
I was going to write the lead author a nice email about how this was the greatest piece of social satire published since the days of Swift, that perhaps it should have been called A Modest Feminist Proposal, but that as social commentary and humor it hardly falls under the NSF's remit so WHERE'S OUR FUCKING MONEY BACK?
Posted by: JEM at March 07, 2016 06:01 PM (o+SC1)
My family member, a neurobiologist, is part of a research team working on a cure for impact-related paralysis. They've submitted dozens of grants, but have only received small awards. Nothing close to the large research grants once available for this level of work. The work is arduous and expensive, and will stop next year unless major grant money is awarded.
Reading politicized science foundations awarded this blather $400,000 for coffee shop level of intellectual masterbation, made me rant enough to frighten the neighbors. Just enraging when that funding is needed desperately by researchers who could change lives.
Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at March 07, 2016 06:09 PM (TKwk8)
Posted by: Shiggz at March 07, 2016 06:35 PM (G7wcY)
However the Kaboom essay was funny. This meta-science crap is just sad.
--Bad News
Posted by: Bad News Quillan at March 07, 2016 07:37 PM (54kgZ)
There is "socially necessary labor," which can mean anything that involves effort approved of by Marxists. So the reason that the market will not provide a living wage to someone who makes mud pies is that it is not socially necessary labor. However, AND THIS IS CRITICAL, anyone who writes Marxist hooey is doing socially necessary labor and so must, to be fair, receive both a living wage and the surplus value associated with hooey. And who determines the surplus value of Marxist hooey: why those who write it obviously.
"Knowledge producer" and "knowledge worker" is cant with three purposes.
First, such people need to be well compensated because of the value of their work in eliminating false consciousness in the Lumpenproletariat and so developing class consciousness among the proles.
Second, knowledge workers are every bit as important, hell much more important, than your average prole. An average prole might do something demeaning like putting garbage in a garbage truck whereas a "knowledge worker" elucidates the feminist take on glaciers, which are apparently sexless but can certainly have gender, which is a cultural construct.
Third, it should be obvious that "knowledge worker" are workers and therefore oppressed and exploited. You need to feel for an associate dean with tenure to the same degree us with migrant farm workers, you capitalist lackey.
Posted by: JeffM at March 07, 2016 07:49 PM (Qg8+H)
Posted by: Cooper43 at March 07, 2016 08:02 PM (i0eos)
Posted by: Yadisneck at March 07, 2016 09:40 PM (k40qI)
Posted by: Jackie Rushing at March 07, 2016 10:15 PM (LeofH)
Posted by: Miley's Tongue dba Ylva of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at March 07, 2016 11:10 PM (/DJaS)
It is a mistake to think the issue is giving grants to deserving grantees vs. undeserving grantees. None of them are "deserving." If they are producing something of real value, someone will pay for it with their own money.
Posted by: iowaan at March 08, 2016 08:34 AM (VuJri)
1. They both just lay there.
2. They both are very cold.
3. They both move very slowly.
4. They both get wet when heated up.
5. They are both hard to climb onto by a male.
Posted by: Old Country Boy at March 08, 2016 09:13 AM (AOwvt)
Posted by: Old Country Boy at March 08, 2016 09:16 AM (AOwvt)
Posted by: BOOMBOOM at March 08, 2016 03:50 PM (owuIO)
Good morning! Though hokey, this actually makes exponentially more sense than the feminist glaciology "study."
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