science studies and social constructionism

Stacy Alaimo discusses science studies and social construction theory, how culture influences scientific fact.

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News & Politics

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• science
• studies
• social
• constructionism
• theory
• global
• warming
• AIDS
• womens
• health
• movement

[djdlusion]

tits out for the boys?

[iamcuriousblue]

And how long did it take the Academic Left to figure out that simple truth? I'm glad these people aren't actually the ones in charge of science and technology; we probably wouldn't even have fire or stone tools yet if they had.

[canaan1967]

"HIV" and "Anthropogenic Global Warming" are both right wing corporate constructs created by moneyed interests, namely the Pharmaceutical industry and the Nuclear Reactor/Oil industry respectively. It is the Left that has co-opted these theories, and some of the left groups will adapt to them and profit off of them quite nicely.

I am a marxist and a leftist myself.

Please visit the Perth Group's website

[eswyatt]

The left got what they deserved. When science validates some fact which they find unpleasant--e.g., women are different than men--social constructionism is the only thing that can get them out of it. Now we see the right can do the same thing.

[ranchovictoria]

In other words, GWB trusts that Jesus rose from the death as a result of a miracle; his "willy" though will rise by no miracle at all but only through the very scientific sientific properties of Viagra. Would he tell Laura to expect a miracle in this second sphere?

[ranchovictoria]

Well for people like Bush it's simple, if he had a coronary conditon he would never restort to prair; he would have scientific surgery at the most scientific hospital he could find. Alternatively if he had to argue that a one day old "fetus" had a soul, he would say it needs no scientific proof. These people are simply cynical dictators of their personal beliefs onto others.