An introduction to the Science Wars playlist: what it’s about, what motivated it, and why it matters. My Patreon (donate per video): https://www.patreon.com/KingCrocoduck?ty=h My Twitter: https://twitter.com/KingCrocoduck My vlogging channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEsywmxARiHoWOIPVQjopKw/feed Works Cited: 1] Harding, Sandra G. The Science Question in Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell U, 1986. Print. pg 113 [2] Harding, Sandra G. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?. Ithaca: Cornell U, 1991. Print. pg 24 [3] pg 39 [4] pg 80 [5] pg 223 [6] Däniken, Erich von: Chariots of the Gods? Notes: Note 1- Harding has also been a consultant to several United Nations organizations including the Pan-American Health Organization, UNESCO, the U.N. Development Fund for Women, and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development. Note 2- This book was published by Cornell University Press. Note 3- It is not disputed that Franklin’s scientific career was plagued by setbacks due to sexism. Nobody disputes this. However, what is highly disputable is whether Watson and Crick were motivated by sexism to refrain from sharing credit with her, or whether this was a (sadly) common example of scientists failing to acknowledge the source of their insights due either to vanity or the structure of academic citations, or both. In any event, what is not open for debate is that Harding was grossly in error when she accused the Nobel committee of overlooking her out of sexism. Note 4- Harding claims that the presence of spherical crystal lenses in Egypt are evidence for the development of telescopes in pre-colonial Africa, and cites Ivan van Sertima to back up her assertions about the Dogon. Neglecting for the moment that the Dogon lived in Mali and not Egypt, which renders any talk of pre-colonial Egyptian telescopes irrelevant to the issue, van Sertima is a pseudohistorian whose work will be covered in more detail when I make the episode addressing Afrocentric thought. ERRATA: My reproach of Harding for [4] may have been too hasty; she apparently was referencing Ruth Hubbard's "Have Only Men Evolved?" That said, I don't think that this error was due to my own carelessness, but to Harding's sloppiness. Making a snarky comment with a footnote doesn't constitute an argument; spell it out for your reader next time. The Youtubers I mentioned: Shinobi Yaka https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuK58_8EFT4ztv5gPyRf1A Zarathustra’s Serpent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n9pcWWhf8BzJ9zFakcA0g The Academic Agent https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyawG3aTE7RmNQcFQskDWcw Gary Edwards https://www.youtube.com/user/GEdwardsPhilosophy Gad Saad https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLH7qUqM0PLieCVaHA7RegA