Can you forgive us for missing this when WIRED originally put it out there last week? We hope so. What really matters is that we’re making sure that you’re aware of it now. “It” being that a computational biologist named Laura Boykin has pronounced science “systematically racist and sexist”:
“Science at its core is systematically racist and sexist.” https://t.co/WOr540tRco
— WIRED (@WIRED) November 10, 2019
How fun!
Here's the attention you wanted https://t.co/mqnJUb4YpN
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 13, 2019
OK, so what’s this about, anyway? Maybe if we read WIRED’s article, it’ll make sen— annnnd nope:
I do not feel like watching an 18 minute video, and going off WIRED's summary I have no idea of what the actual issue is here? pic.twitter.com/irNxbFsQ4E
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) November 13, 2019
The actual issue is apparently that Laura Boykin is an idiot and also that WIRED is dumb enough to promote her.
Sure, sure https://t.co/LUCklrFgsr
— Emily Zanotti’s Great & Unmatched Wisdom (@emzanotti) November 13, 2019
— mitrebox (@mitrebox) November 13, 2019
Is this a parody account now?
— Errrrrrrrrrr (@ElliotR) November 10, 2019
Um, no it is not
— Burton Lee (@burtonlee) November 11, 2019
Well then claims of global climate change are racist and sexist. https://t.co/d69gSHch9n
— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) November 13, 2019
It's about time somebody cancelled science
— The Great and Unmatched Wisdom of Nero (@GrowtheFKUP) November 13, 2019
Science has been cancelled.
— Jan Hus (@Jan_Hus_1369) November 13, 2019
If science were truly sexist, we might have the good fortune to be spared from the hot takes of lady scientist Laura Boykin. But alas. We’re stuck with her. So much for sexist science.
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