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Science does not rely on authority as an indicator of truth. 13 Feb 2012 | 04:48 am
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science Go to transcript It is worth reiterating that contrary to popular depictions of science, science does not rely on authority as an indicator of truth. The video re...
Carl Sagan on why his science organization should stop excluding women (1981) 26 Mar 2011 | 12:19 pm
If membership is restricted to men, the loss will be ours: Early-1981, following IBM’s withdrawal of support due to the organisation’s continued exclusion of women within its ranks, renowned astronom...
We cannot name ourselves without Othering ourselves in the White Gaze. 22 Mar 2011 | 10:00 pm
In Bad Romance: Feminism and women of colour make an unhappy pair, Sana Saeed writes: “Women of colour” beautifully illustrates the exact problem I discovered with feminism, as a woman who did not fi...
White Canadians earn more, because they have white privilege. 22 Mar 2011 | 10:17 am
White Canadians earn more than non-white Canadians, even when comparing only the whites and non-whites with the same education and of the same age. Comparing only the foreign-born white Canadians with...
Misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo hates scientist Marie Curie and women. 14 Mar 2011 | 10:00 pm
In The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo, Christine Cheng discusses a misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo who put up fourteen posters last month (February 2011) vilif...
Workers, mostly immigrants, organize unions in Silicon Valley. 10 Mar 2011 | 02:00 am
Striker Maribel Garcia reads a statement from women who went on a hunger strike in a tent encampment on the sidewalk in front of one of Versatronex' biggest customers, Digital Microwave Corporati...
The Paternalistic Academic-Industrial-Complex of Feminism 9 Mar 2011 | 03:40 pm
Here are some excerpts from Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee. (Excerpts via Racialicious): Jessica Yee: “Introduction” [W]e’re not...
Across the calculus sections, women outperformed men on grades. 8 Mar 2011 | 02:00 am
Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What the new research shows, Dasgupta said, is ch...
Men agree to casual sex more, because female strangers are not considered dangerous and bad in bed. 8 Mar 2011 | 01:00 am
Or (Heterosexual) Male privilege, not evolution or innate female frigidness, explains the gender difference in accepting random propositions for casual sex. Gender Differences and Casual Sex: The New...
White Americans did NOT elect Obama. 6 Mar 2011 | 11:57 am
This myth won’t die: But not everyone buys that script. Mona Charen, a conservative columnist for the National Review, challenges that view with this question: If more white Americans feel like an em...
