Some critics framed science’s language as exploitative toward nature.

Evidence

Some claimed that science was really about the personal aggrandizement of scientists who were claiming to be experts on empirical matters. Rather than discovering the truth about nature, they were merely advancing their own agenda of power and exploitation based on their political beliefs. Others pointed out that the language of scientific inquiry was irredeemably sexist and revealed its exploitative nature. It was “prying the secrets loose” from mother nature, forcing her to submit to their examination. One scholar went so far as to claim that Newton’s Principia Mathematica was a “rape manual.” — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 254

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modern scientific language still encodes the sexualized coercion of nature — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 682; Scientific language’s exclusionary conventions undermine democratic environmental dialogue — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1266; Social constructivist critics described science’s methods as exploitative and even sexual violence — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 254 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Social constructivist critics described science’s methods as exploitative and even sexual violence #expands (0.95) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 254
• Modern scientific language still encodes the sexualized coercion of nature #expands (0.90) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 682
• Science’s power to control nature depends on a deliberately restricted view of reality #expands (0.75) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 862
• Scientific language’s exclusionary conventions undermine democratic environmental dialogue #expands (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1266