Those were my questions, as well.

i actually stopped reading after that.

I stopped reading at exactly the same, superfluous, point.

It wasn't, but gawker types (and jizzmodo is part of gawker) can't help but add unnecessary snark.

Just have to sneak in racial politics everywhere. If the outfit were all “asian, male” or some other group that injection wouldn’t be present. Those damn white males.

Yeah except the injection of that line in the article is purely to draw in racial politics into the article, and throws the authors credibility into the air.

I don’t even see how that particular bit was relevant to the article. =|

Why the (white, male) callout? Seems awkward. Are you implying fusion’s failures are the result of insufficient female asian scientists?

the Houston-style control center where dozens of (white, male) scientists crunched data