Babies are at the center of a lot the sexist bullshit in labs. Not all of it, but there's really so much judgement (maybe not from the PI but sometimes other researchers) about choosing to start a family if you're a woman. *sigh* I did want to mention the difficulty working for a woman PI because I was told, as a…
Focus on the challenge. That's what successful people in STEM do. And use your personality to your advantage. I can't stress that enough. White guys get an entire personality spectrum on which to define themselves. Life in STEM is much better in lab when you're not trying or letting other people push you into defining…
I'm not in STEM, but I am in a heavily male doctoral program (and field of study) and it is stifling. Add into the mix a bunch of old, male curmudgeon professors and a group of highly competitive students competing for their time/attention... it's a really shitty environment to try to learn and grow in.
Better add to that confidence hurdle is having your designs (for engineers anyway) checked 4x as much as your male counterparts. The men I work with never have their designs reviewed the ways mine are. I once had to take pictures and send file data to prove the dimensions my design had were what was specified in the…
There's also the fact that when women get into these fields, the culture is so oppressive that staying in the field is impossibly difficult. She wrote a fantastic piece about how the culture and sexism in her graduate program led to her decision to drop out of her PhD program despite being an incredibly talented…
As an archaeologist myself, I think one issue that poses a barrier to finding prehistoric instances of cancer in human remains is the short life expectancy of those populations. For example, a paleolithic human's average life expectancy at birth was about 30 years, and a neolithic human's was 20 years! As we are…
Nubians had cell phones and Tab 3000 years ago? Wow.
...and to dumb conspiracy theories.
According to the American Cancer Society, the earliest mention of cancer is approximately 5000 years old. The name itself is attributed to Hippocrates (so roughly 2500 years ago). So, it's probably always been with us, and probably always will be.
Dude, I know what you mean. Yesterday I ate a veggie burger and then I got some bad news over the telephone. I'm not anti-veggie burger of course, but if I have another one I'll look into the possibility of not putting barbecue sauce on it.
And how many of these papers have you read? Most people would expect an annotated bibliography at the minimum when you are presenting a lit search. Half of these papers are not even relevant.
I do have the experience of seeing a friends' child's personality change and remain changed after vaccinations.
If anyone has questions about autism and vaccines, I'll just leave this very informative link here:
Right I feel like there is no debate. There's normal people who vaccinate and batshit insane people willing to kill infants, transplant recipients, and people with compromised immune systems so their snow flake doesn't get autism.
HOW. How did they manage to replace Elisabeth Hasselbeck with someone even dumber/more ignorant/punch-in-the-face-able?
Personally, I find it really sexy when my mate understands that the process of peer review occasionally uncovers falsified data which results in studies being redacted and the author losing their medical license and reputation. Gets me so hot when someone knows that.
Instead of "pro-vaxxers" can we just be "normal people" or "rational everyday humans?" I don't want these anti-vax people to be given any more ideas that this bullshit is a two-sided "debate."
I CANNOT with the anti-science undercurrent that runs through American culture. "Dr." Leo Spaceman is not somebody whose views we should be adopting:
Just say you don't mind killing other people's kids and be done with it.
