Hi

Michael's comments would be funnier still if they weren't so
similar to some of the more "serious" writings by critics of
science.  Here is Sandra Harding:
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The radical feminist position holds that epistemologies,
metaphysics, ethics, and politics of the dominant forms of
science are androcentric and mutually supportive; that despite
the deeply ingrained Western cultural belief in science's
intrinsic progressiveness, science today serves primarily
regressive social tendencies; and that the social structure of
science, many of its applications and technologies, its modes of
defining research problems and designing experiments, its ways of
constructing and conferring meanings are not only sexist but also
racist, classist, and culturally coercive.
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There are numerous examples of this, for example by Duran and
Duran in their book on Post-colonial Psychology, Kenneth Gergen
in his celebration of "relativism," and so on.

Best wishes
Jim

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