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From the article: > But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the te
by johnmaguire2013 8y ago
From the article:
> But Dr Bouman, now an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences at the California Institute of Technology, insisted the team that helped her deserves equal credit.
> The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from Antarctica to Chile, involved a team of more than 200 scientists.
> "No one of us could've done it alone," she told CNN. "It came together because of lots of different people from many different backgrounds."
> "We're a melting pot of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, and that's what it took to achieve something once thought impossible," Dr Bouman says.
- monksy 8y agoI'm going to edit the parent comment to show my response to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638629
- abunner 8y agoNext time, just don't comment if your contribution is to cast doubt on the experience and intentions of a woman based only on your bias.
- monksy 8y agoI don't selectively cast doubts on the experience and intentions of a woman because they are a woman. That would be sexist. The suggestion that people should avoid casting doubt/criticism due to a person's gender is sexist.