It just goes to show that reality must prevail over ideology: a valid ideology, in other words, must conform to reality, to truth, to evidence, before it can bde taken seriously. Physical laws are, pace Popper, just that: the best approximation of reality.

The speed of light is what it is, regardless of any sympathies towards feminist or Christian or Islamist ideology. It isn't 'privileged' over, say, the speed of sound, or the speed of feminist understanding of the real world, just to rank those different speeds in km/sec.

The Enlightenment has been the bitterly and viciously fought-for outcome of a struggle towards an understanding of reality, for the development of science on one hand and the struggle for human equality, on the other, over superstition, religion and ideology. Irigaray and other opportunists may wish for some 'sign' that its products are gender-biased, but how do you distinguish between their approach and a reactionary retreat from reality ? Ah yes, that might explain their sucking-up to the worst forms of Islamism: the most 'complete' repudiation of the Enlightenment.

Meanwhile, genome sequencing and other breakthroughs move on.

Joe