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It's not the dollar amount. It's the fact that particle physicists told lies in order to get that money, but instead of being sent to prison like Anna Sorokin
by lisper 5y ago
It's not the dollar amount. It's the fact that particle physicists told lies in order to get that money, but instead of being sent to prison like Anna Sorokin did for doing exactly the same thing, they got tenure.
Societal privilege manifests itself in all sorts of ways both big and small, but the ultimate measure of it is in the difference between how people are treated for doing the exact same thing depending on whether they have it or not.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo you equate a scientist being wrong about yet-undiscovered laws of nature with lying? So if Eithstein would be wrong about theory of relativity, we should have burned him at the stake? It's like what we did in the dark ages, but in reverse?
- lisper 5y agoThe lies I'm referring to are the claims about the LHC confirming or ruling out supersymmetry.