Can This Be Called Science?

I'm at a loss for words. Not only did this put my mind on tilt, it sent my spell checker into meltdown. Surely this must be an elaborate hoax

From "Glaciers, gender and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research," a paper by researchers at the University of Oregon, underwritten by the U.S. National Science Foundation, in the journal Progress in Human Geography, Jan, 10:

Glaciers said:

Ice is not just ice. The dominant way Western societies understand it through the science of glaciology, is not a neutral representation of nature. The feminist glaciology framework draws attention to those who dominate and frame the production of glaciological knowledge, the gengered discourses of science and knowledge, and the ways in which colonial, military, and geopolitical domination co-contitute glaciological knowledge.

Even in a globalized age where the place of women and indigenous people has improved markedly in some parts of the world, masculinist discources continue to dominate, in subtle and determantive ways. Feminist glaciology advocates for a shift of preoccupations in research policy, and public perceptions from the physical and seemingly natural, to a broader consideration of 'cryoscapes', the human, and the insights and potentials of alternative ice narratives and folk glaciologies.

The critique and framework outlines here illuminate experiences and narratives that emerged historically but remain potent today. Public discourse on the cryosphere continues to privilege, quite explicity, manly endeavours and adventures in the field, and those who conduct their science in the manner of masculinist glaciologists and other field scientists of decades and centuries past...

The call for a feminist glaciology is not limited to ice and glaciers, but is a larger intervention into global environmental change (and especially climate change) research and policy.