I would encourage young women in particular to not be intimidated by male -
dominated academic science.
For centuries men
dominated academic science and engineering.
Not exact matches
(a) Man may regard his encounter with the powers which
dominate his life — death, life, spirit, blood, and so forth — as the decisive factors in his life:
science will then be an
academic luxury devoid of any existential importance.
Also, while identifying The Prince, rightly, as a profound departure from the ideal state theorising that had previously (and still does)
dominate normative political philosophy — and as the first example of a more empirically guided and morally neutral political
science — Unger overlooks Machiavelli's culpability in this damaging division of
academic labour.
Freeman Dyson, one of the great theoretical physicists of our time, states that «The
science of the
academic world tends to be
dominated by unifiers, while the
science of the industrial world tends to be
dominated by diversifiers.»
Suddenly, we seem to live in a time
dominated by «fake news», «alternative facts», conspiracy theories, scepticism of scientific research, partial accounts parading as «the real truth which has hitherto been concealed from us, the people», revolts against allegedly smug
academic elites and distant political elites — a time where YouTube videos claiming research into climate change to be a scam get far more viewers than videos presenting the
science of climate change.
The I.P.C.C. continues to be
dominated by natural scientists who may be well intentioned but seem not to be aware that there are equal level (i.e.,
academic, «scientific») studies of communication and that such a discipline, together with other social
sciences, can give crucial contributions to understanding the current and future realities of climate change.