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Worm joke causes science accusations of sexism & racism (neo-prude community)

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https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/08/0...n-twitter/

EXCERPTS (Jerry Coyne): . . . I saw this article in the Daily Beast. Surprisingly, the Beast, which I thought was on the liberal side of the spectrum, took sides against the Perpetually Offended, as it should have given the ridiculous nature of the fracas. [...Eisen...] had to clarify himself again, for one clarification only leads to another if you’re facing the Woke.

Although scientists have previously not been that immersed in Wokeness, they’re starting to become that way big time, buffeted by the winds of social change and perhaps a bit peevish and restive from the pandemic. ... Eisen even got faulted for using the word “f_ck,” for his “frat boy humor” and for having a bit of fun on the Internet ... Some people, like Coleen Murphy, took umbrage because they had “grants and paper rejected based on *exactly* this reason.” I seriously doubt that this is literally true. Perhaps the rejections were based on a perceived lack of generality from results in C. elegans to other metazoan species, but they could have been rejected for other reasons. At any rate, that’s no reason to dump on Eisen. What we see here is animus aimed at editors and reviewers directed instead at Eisen... (MORE - details)
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If allowed to continue, this will inevitably be the death of science.
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