Friday, November 25, 2011

An Update on Nature's Sexism

Apparently Nature intends to stand by its editor and his buddy who wrote that sexist fiction piece. They haven't come out with any official public statement. And the fiction author continues to tell the rest of the world they're wrong - he's a nice guy and everything he said is entirely legitimate and the rest of us should just shut up.

No, I'm not going to link to any of the depressing swill. One of the hypotheses is that they're doing it as linkbait, which seems a cheap tactic for one of the world's foremost scientific publications.

But I have to wonder if some clicks are worth looking like retrograde jerks.

The good part of this furore has been that I've found Paleontologist Barbie and Michael Eisen's blog.

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