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For those who are alarmed by physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s paper, “Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics”, know that this isn’t her first rodeo. Here’s my response to her in 2017: 1/4
quillette.com/2017/08/11/sto…
What’s fun about the completely emotional panic that social justice devotees were having about the google memo is that they were so deeply upset by what they thought was in it—so deeply biased—they were unable to really grapple with what it actually said. 2/
In the wake of her newest paper, Prescod-Weinstein has accused people of poor reading comprehension, but of course she was guilty of just that in her own take-down of James Damore’s google memo: 3/
slate.com/technology/201…
And here, if you’re a sucker for punishment, are some choice quotations from the new paper, curated by @peterboghossian: /end
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COVID-19 math:

If

X = # of deaths, and
Y = total # of infected people,

Then

X / Y = fatality rate.

If Y is wrong because govt’s aren’t testing or reporting, then the rate will also be wrong: it will seem to be higher than it actually is.
" ‘Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died,’ [the] WHO Director-General said.”

Note “reported.” This is not an accurate total count of infected people.

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Women don’t ski in long, flowing dresses because it would be dangerous and stupid to do so. But a man does it, and objecting indicates some sort of failure “as a woman who wants to help rewrite gender norms”?! FFS.
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PSA: If you want to date a man who communicates well and acknowledges his emotions, you do not need to date a man who dresses like a lace-and-tulle-loving woman on her wedding day.

There are plenty of good men who can communicate while not wearing dresses. Seriously, people.
If I’m being totally honest, one of the reasons that this story irritates me is that, yes, the dude looks ridiculous in that dress, but also, *anyone* would look terrible in that dress. It’s not just impractical; it’s a really ugly piece of clothing.
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The Amazon beckons—Ceiba trees emerging above the forest canopy; woolly monkeys doing acrobatics in the trees; macaws and parrotlets chattering; leaf-cutter ants farming; a salt lick where peccaries convene.
The Pacific Northwest is feeling so very January right now—water falling and misting, pooling on clay soils, thick grey skies, cool but rarely deeply cold.

In one week, @BretWeinstein and I will be back in a lowland tropical rainforest: similarly wet, hotter by 60 degrees.
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These are quotations from a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Signs (University of Chicago Press)

“Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics”

Author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (she/her/they)

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…
“String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways because the community—which is almost entirely male and disproportionately white relative to other areas of physics—is too homogeneous”
“string theory provides an example of how white supremacist racial prestige asymmetry produces an antiempiricist epistemic practice among physicists, white empiricism”
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