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Chickens are coming home to roost, finally. This is probably just the beginning. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184 https://news.ycombinat
by chmaynard 8y ago
Chickens are coming home to roost, finally. This is probably just the beginning.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184
"Predatory male scientists abound in such numbers that it would be a Sisyphean task to devote a series of essays to describing their abuses in painful detail; even as this article was heading off to press, pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. In addition to cataloguing the trespasses of individual scientists who abuse the cultural power of their position, we have to dismantle the structures that have allowed their abuses to continue with little to no disruption. Just for starters, this means abandoning the myth that the science can be separated from the scientist."
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- AstralStorm 8y agoUgh, that article is a truly pointless opinion piece.