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Certain things about the intersection of classical mechanics and electricity and magnetism require relatively theory to make sense of them. When we get to General Relativity Theory, it's something which makes GPS able to work - the influence of Gravity on the speed of time - important to be important to understand the precession and the parahelium of Mercury - to understand how gravity works to the point where it can bend light. There was a famous solar eclipse where we should have been able to see a star that should have been behind the disk of the sun, and the only explanation was gravitational lensing that Einstein had predicted - giving his relativity theories more confirmation.
But this isn't the same thing as adding Critical Theory into anything. It's saying that there is some important physical truth that hasn't been discerned which reframes that rest of what we're doing in the sciences. It doesn't destroy other sciences - Newtonian physics isn't wrong, it's a very good approximation that assumes something incorrect. That's a very differentt hing. But you can't, from within Newtonian physics, understand what the approximation is. You have to step outside of it and have a paradigm shift.
This is how they basically suggest that you have to bring political agendas into the sciences. Since the 70's and it's been criticized repeatedly, but they do it because they don't care that they're wrong. They just don't care that they're wrong nad they keep invoking it.
Humanities people, misusing a topic, stepping into completely different subjects and suggesting that the real experts.
You have to understand what' shappening here.
"Border-breaking events are traditionally considered as achievements to be appreciated rather than goals to be pursued. In order for researchers and professors in different disciplines to think and work together, they should strive to reach a deeper and broader understanding of the problem they're supposed to address together that could possibly be achieved on the basis of their respective disciplines separately or even joined (transcending - doing NOT your discipline), training and practices. There are challenges that relate to the relationship between how scientist or scholars are trained (can they do math?) and how they work. on the one hand, how a scientist enjoys scientific activities depends very much on how they were trained preparing theri scientific career. On the other hand, how future scientists are trained depends on how their teachers, as mature scientists, conduct the research in teaching."
You're going to have to teach to make sure that the activists stays happy. The excuse is always that the physics department is being taught wrong and it teaches women out of physics. You have to feministize your department in order to make it more accessible to women (female activists).
The social environment is bad for X groups of people, who are going to predominantly be activists in the aca demic sectors, and they use that as a lever to get activists placed in these positions. (people who are not necessarily good at their disciplines).