Myth: Nuclear energy is sexist #
When you hear this myth it usually means that the gish-galloper has run out of arguments. This argument implies that science is only for men, that the technology has a mind of its own, and erases the many women who work in nuclear medicine, engineering, physics, nuclear power plants, etc. Which of course is untrue and not the case.
At a rally in 2012, prominent anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott called nuclear energy sexual, compared nuclear power and renewables to penises (yes, really), and argued that men who support it have something wrong with their brains [1].
In 2023, Radio France expounded on this myth, writing: “Nuclear power is seen as the embodiment and celebration of patriarchy. It is a brutal and hierarchical, opaque energy, over which we have no control, which crushes you, steps on you, and does not let you have a say [2].
Indeed the argument itself is sexist and the user committing true gasligting.
