The Scientific American Debacle; Low content feminism invading science: how one feminist was called names when pandering for money, then used her blog to decry the insult, and was subsequently squelched for inappropriateness.

2013-10-14T08:26:14+00:00

She was called a whore for refusing to work for free (writing an article for somebody's website).

This isn't a feminism issue. This is just an issue of calling out nasty exploitative people.

It's just a shame this sort of thing always blows up into a big 'women in STEM' issue - rather than just a 'there's a few really nasty people on the internet' issue.

2013-10-14T02:58:58+00:00

A Message from Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief, Scientific American

We recently removed a blog post by Dr. Danielle Lee that alleged a personal experience of this nature. Dr. Lee’s post pertained to personal correspondence between her and an editor at Biology-Online about a possible assignment for that network. Unfortunately, we could not quickly verify the facts of the blog post and consequently for legal reasons we had to remove the post.

... We deeply regret that we were not able to communicate our decision to Dr. Lee before removing the post on a late Friday afternoon before a long weekend.

... We would like to make clear that Biology-Online is neither a part of Scientific American, nor a “content partner.”

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_02_24_05hm.html

Self-centered? Thin-skinned? Takes things personally? Misogynist tropes that sum up Estrich to a T. It is the fate of probably 98 percent of all op-ed hopefuls to have their work silently rejected, without the “courtesy of a call.” But when a woman experiences the silent treatment, it’s because of sexism. Similarly, it is the fate of most e-mail correspondence to editors to be ignored. But when Estrich’s e-mails are ignored (“I sent e-mails to my old friends at the Times. Neither time did they even bother to respond.”), it’s because the editor is a chauvinist pig.

If you're not familiar with the Larry Summers incident, you should read up on it to get an idea of how feminists wll make hay of this.

Harvard's Diversity Grovel: Harvard University has just pledged $50 million for faculty “diversity” efforts, penance for President Lawrence Summers’s public mention of sex differences in cognition.

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