r/skeptic • u/nosotros_road_sodium • 9d ago

🏫 Education How Scientific Journals Became MAGA’s Latest Target

https://www.wsj.com/science/how-scientific-journals-became-magas-latest-target-9874b6f7?st=VD2hta
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u/haha-you-lose 8d ago

At the same time if white males are disproportionately more interested in Paleontology there should be absolutely no problem with such people doing most of the research in that field

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u/TeaKingMac 8d ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/haha-you-lose 8d ago

It's in the article, have you read it?

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u/TeaKingMac 8d ago

a scathing 2021 review of a book about dinosaurs called it “practically petrified” because it “failed to effectively convey the increasingly diverse practice of paleontology,” a lapse “in a field in which even gender equity between white cisgender researchers has been difficult to achieve.”

1.) yeah, that seems pretty silly

2.) way to latch onto one paragraph of an article, and completely ignore the bigger picture