What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?
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The New York Times Coverage of Feminist Researchers in the Media
The article focuses very little on the scientific questions asked or even the scientific implications of the study beyond broad claims about glacier shrinkage and sea level rise. The portrayal of masculinist researchers in the media because that's what sells presumably can shape scientific credibility in the academy such as with hiring and possibly even with peer reviewing. Being as manly as a victorian mountaineer glaciologists were more than a century ago continues to influence scientists credibility i added some things there by the way or on the other side their lack of credibility for those who cannot pitch their research through such masculine frameworks.
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