A feminist professor at the University of California, Davis recently said she intended to "challenge the authority of science" by "rewriting" scientific fact through a feminist lens which would supposedly help to avoid racism.

What does this even mean?

Sara Giordano, a former neuroscientist-turned-Women's Studies professor, argued in an essay that "traditional science" should be replaced with an "anti-science, anti-racist, feminist approach to knowledge production."

Giordano insists that science is not only rooted in racism, but is used to further perpetuate racism.

Giordano's essay added:

"[Science] earned its epistemic authority through its co-constitution with colonization and slavery," and as a result, "relies on a colonial and racialized form of power."

"At the root of the justification for social inequality then is Western science," Giordano claimed, and said that scientific distinction between "humans and non-humans" has opened the doors for capitalism to be "justified as a natural economic system."

What are Giordano's hopes for 'feminist science'?