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Remember a week ago when this site scoured a public GitHub repo to ensure a woman physicist wasn't getting more credit than she was due? Imagine having to conduct yourself in your professional life as though you were under persistent threat of audit by some know-nothings if you stuck your head up too high. I would go insane.

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She wasn't a physicist, she was a computer scientist. Harrassing her was wrong, but so is what happened to this physicist. Stop trying use her to push divisions. If you truly cared about harrassment, you'd be just as offended at what happened to this guy as much as you are about her. Also, people like you do far more to push women and minorities out of STEM than anything. You are constantly telling women and minorities what a terrible racist and misogynist place academia is.

It is not pushing divisions to highlight existing divisions. They must be addressed, not papered over. Academia (and other places) indeed is or can be a racist & misogynistic place, but you don't have to take my word for it - many women scientists have spoken up about this issue.

Bro.

Or you know, work hard and have integrity by not taking undue credit or unfair favoritism so that any audit by "know-nothings" (?) becomes fruitless. The reason for the "audit" is that looking closer at stories like this very often reveals a hidden truth: it's made up fluff to push an agenda.

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