This is condescending and wrong, Matt. Zeynep is not the intellectual midwife to awkward real experts who had trouble expressing their feelings, but someone who pushed hard against a near-universal consensus at great professional risk. Her name is on the research papers.
No, it’s the fact that science communication is not what she did in this situation; she did something considerably harder. It’s that dilution that irked me in Matt’s compliment and struck me as condescending
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I’ve been known to communicate a little bit of the old science myself, so I find the accusation that I don’t actually value it puzzling, unless it’s just a rhetorical arm bar in our tweetfight
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I don’t know, because I’m trying to figure out where “gendered” entered the chat.
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