"However, she is paid by the American Enterprise Institute, which has a definite agenda."
... and feminists don't? ... and gays don't? ... and scientists don't? ... and americans don't? ... and universities don't? ... and .... and ... ad infinitum --Mike On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Paul Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I indicated, I respect her work. However, she is paid by the American > Enterprise Institute, which has a definite agenda. > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Allen Esterson wrote: > > > > In reponse to Stephen Black's citing an article by Christina Hoff > Sommers, Paul Brandon wrote: > >...and slightly right wing, though she often makes good points. > > Dare I suggest that Hoff Sommer's work should be treated on its merits, > regardless of whether her socio-political views are right or left of centre! > > As Hoff Sommers notes, there are certainly what she calls "serious > scholars" in feminist studies, but, apart from her own *Who Stole Feminism?" > (1994), Patai & Koertge's *Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination > in Women's Studies* (2003) highlights numerous causes for concern about > academic standards in women's studies. I've had my own brush with an example > of this in the person of Senta Troemel-Ploetz, a linguist who came to > prominence in 1990 when the sensational claims that Einstein's first wife > made substantive contributions to his epoch-making 1905 papers first > surfaced: > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12517061.700.html > > Many of the erroneous assertions in Troemel-Ploetz's woefully unscholarly > article "Mileva Einstein-Maric: The Woman Who Did Einstein's Mathematics" > are uncritically recyled, including on "Women in Science" websites, and > notoriously on the PBS co-produced "Einstein's Wife" documentary. Howes and > Herzenberg's book *Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project* > (1999) even lists Mileva Maric among five women who were "Founding Mothers" > in nuclear science. (Unsurprisingly, Troemel-Ploetz is referenced for this > section.) > > I have no direct information about whether Troemel-Ploetz is right wing > or left wing, but I regard that as irrelevant to a consideration of the > accuracy of her contentions. (Her denunciation of what she calls "the > cultural imperialism of the U.S. academic establishment" perhaps gives a > clue, or maybe not.) > > References > > "Mileva Einstein-Maric: The Woman Who Did Einstein's mathematics", Women's > Studies International Forum, Vol. 13, Issue 5, 1990, pp. 415-432 > http://tinyurl.com/http-www-sciencedirect-com-s > Exchanges with Troemel-Ploetz on MSNBC's "Cosmic Log": > http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/27/15908.aspx > http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/20/15370.aspx > > Critique of Troemel-Ploetz (1990): > http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=218 > > Allen Esterson > Former lecturer, Science Department > Southwark College, London > http://www.esterson.org > > ******************************************************* > Michael Smith > Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:19:13 -0700 > > ...I guess that will balance the slightly left wing > > > That reminds me, I still have to read her book The War Against Boys > > > --Mike > > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Paul Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > .... and slightly right wing, though she often makes good points. > > > > > > > On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > The admirable and incisive Christina Hoff Sommers is at it again on the > > >> myths and fake statistics propagated by certain feminist authors (for > > >> example, the old "rule of thumb" canard), Shame on them for giving > > >> scholarship a bad name. > > >> > > >> http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i40/40sommers.htm > > >> > > >> Stephen > > >> > > > Paul Brandon > > > 10 Crown Hill Lane > > > Mankato, MN 56001 > > > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------ > Don't let your email address define you - Define yourself at > tunome.com<http://tunome.com/?ncid=aolaff00030000000003> > today! > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > > Paul Brandon > Emeritus Professor of Psychology > Minnesota State University, Mankato > [email protected] > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
