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April 22, 2014
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on “The Larry Summers question: What’s up with chicks in science?”:
From a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Inquiry. Starts at 1:02:30 of the video.
DrugMonkey
biomedical research, just another job…
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DrugMonkey 
April 22, 2014 at 8:08 am
“Before we talk about genetic differences, we need to come up with a system with equal opportunity and then we can have that conversation”. Very, very well said.
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April 22, 2014 at 8:29 am
Superb. Thanks for posting.
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April 22, 2014 at 8:50 am
NDT is badass.
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April 22, 2014 at 10:57 am
Thank you for posting this!
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April 22, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Related:
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/22/305814367/evidence-of-racial-gender-biases-found-in-faculty-mentoring
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April 22, 2014 at 2:59 pm
Nobody noticed the deft way NDT jumped in there before Richard Dawkins could make a dick of himself? I thought that question was clearly asking for Dawkins to say something stupid.
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April 22, 2014 at 3:18 pm
The power of diversity! I wish that such reflection on and extrapolation from one’s life experiences would also occur more often to those who are the recipient of all the good things…and all the passes (like that thief).
Can we make this mandatory listening?
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April 22, 2014 at 3:49 pm
That response was seriously, seriously brilliant.
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April 22, 2014 at 5:53 pm
This was not the first time that NDT was asked this question;)
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April 23, 2014 at 11:20 am
Spot on. He told the security anecdote in his memoir IIRC (read it a long time ago) and it strikes me as such a perfect anti parallel to the other familiar phenomenon, where a woman (or black man?) makes a suggestion and it goes ignored until a white man says it….We attribute actions, both good and bad, based so deeply on our expectations.
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April 24, 2014 at 4:25 am
“Nobody noticed the deft way NDT jumped in there before Richard Dawkins could make a dick of himself? I thought that question was clearly asking for Dawkins to say something stupid.”
C’mon DM. It’s not like women who want to do science in the US have to mutilate their genitals or anything. They’ve got it pretty damn good relatively speaking, so, like, why can’t they just get over it or whatever?
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