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Sexism in science: Peer editor tells females their study needs a male author

6 points| TheBiv | 11 years ago |washingtonpost.com

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[+] spcoll|11 years ago|reply
The paper was an argument demonstrating that males in academia are sexist fuckheads. Then an anonymous male reviewer comes along and writes:

"It would probably also be beneficial to find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors), in order to serve as a possible check against interpretations that may sometimes be drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions."

Thus confirming that males in academia are sexist fuckheads. Brilliant! QED! I hope the next edition of the paper includes the review as supporting evidence :)

[+] paulhauggis|11 years ago|reply
So do we get to see the paper? I see the anonymous peer reviews quoted all over the place, but no actual link to the paper they submitted.

Yes, the comments were terrible, but the paper might be equally as terrible and hence, got rejected.