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When I was poking around at the Protein Wisdom right-wing wackaloon treehouse seeing what they had to say about my fisking of the NY Times piece on Title IX and science, I stumbled upon a species of apologist argument that I would like to address generically. The basic idea is that there must not be inequitable discrimination in some venue, because if there were, those discriminated against would be suing left and right, thus providing a strong incentive for the institutions that control that venue to stamp out discrimination.
Well the fatal flaw with this argument is that the overwhelmingly vast majority of inequitable discrimination that occurs in science is not legally actionable. I will illustrate this with shit I have seen with my own two eyes.
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MissPrism
July 18, 2008 at 12:14 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
That link is broke.
Anonymoustache
July 18, 2008 at 12:35 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
The second one’s bad—has an extra http// etc. The link on “Snippet of this post” works.
PhysioProf
July 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Fixed! Thanks for the heads up!