In Davida Charney’s (1996) article “Empiricism Is Not a Four-Letter Word,” she argued that “critics of science often conflate methods and ideologies in simplistic ways that have been challenged by others sharing their political commitments” (p. 283). Charney examined the possibility of incorporating empirical methods, the power of technical communication, derived authority, radical mischaracterizations of science, implicating science in injustice, how sexist methods serve the oppressive power structure, the process of communal critique to create knowledge, and collective objectivity. Charney’s purpose was to propose that the “only way to progress as a discipline is to undertake the hard task of interconnecting our work, by building up provisional confidence in our methods and our knowledge base” (p. 297). Charney’s intended audience was scholars in search of a new research method that would avoid the oppression of the other methods. Charney’s claims seemed far-reaching, but the underlying idea of communal knowledge building was sensible.