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306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There Such a Thing as Serendipity?

Stefan Zuckerman: I found my attempts to interact with my peers were not reciprocated and were ignored, even ignored. After a few months into my second postdoc, I stopped going to my office to work. He says he was harboring both disdain for and envy of his postdoctoral colleagues. They feel that they had to work so hard to get to the top and you got in easily through affirmative action, close quote. So here you're really speaking to something along the lines of systemic racism as it's called now. It's just kind of built into the system.

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