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This is why women are socialized to carefully dance around these issues, disagreeing with men in an extremely gentle manner. Not because women are nicer creatures than men. But because our very survival can depend on it.
No Skin Thick Enough: The Daily Harassment of Women in the Game Industry | Polygon
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Science is, by design, very heterogeneous. This means that there are lots of areas which are very different to one another. Mycological studies are quite different to bovine ecology, and both barely resemble studies looking at atmospheric science. It’s likely that different areas of science simply have enormously different rates of misconduct, because there are different incentives and ways to fabricate data depending on where you look.
A Lot of Science Is Fake
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The Body Mass Index was invented nearly 200 years ago. Its creator, Adolphe Quetelet, was an academic whose studies included astronomy, mathematics, statistics, and sociology. Notably, Quetelet was not a physician, nor did he study medicine. He was best known for his sociological work aimed at identifying the characteristics of l’homme moyen — the average man — whom, to Quetelet, represented a social ideal.
The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI
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