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.
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@Pinboard’s that says “the whole scientific community was wrong” rather than that “there was diversity of thought in the expert community but the dissenters were afraid to speak out loudly against authoritative figurss.” -
The latter is more my experience of science, and I think the sea change in thought that happened by April was largely driven by a combination of this diversity of opinion and people (perhaps not coincidentally outside the exact field) having the courage to raise objections.
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Anyway, I don't need credit or praise, and honestly I'm more than fine but next time, I'd suggest more open-eyed assessment of what the reality was, not because of me, but women's role is routinely minimized to being "communicators" rather than analysts or thinkers on their own.
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Zeynep, I’ve worked with you and I’m hurt you’d think that was my opinion. My assumption was that neither you (nor I) have any expertise in this area beyond the ability to read others’ existing work and synthesize it effectively. But maybe I’m wrong about that.
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