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[–] RandomWalker@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The linked article has some top notch mental gymnastics. It goes through great pains to claim that Watson and Crick didn’t steal Franklins’s data (but were extremely cavalier about using it without telling her) and that they would’ve taken anyone’s data, not just a woman’s (although the data had to be brought to their attention because Watson didn’t take any notes on her lecture and instead only paid attention to her appearance).

I don’t know what drives people to make unfounded assertions defending the legacy of male scientists even while going through such lengths to describe the sexism female scientists faced. It’s like they want to imagine sexism was just something in the air that happened to affect women and not caused or perpetuated by anyone.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

First one I grabbed, figures. Only skimmed it.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

I did not read it but its funny if they did. This has been known and talked about for 30 years or more so it would be a bit hard to get this genie back in the bottle.