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UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Really?
Are we just critiquing news sources and their poor headline or can we actually comment about the subject?
This person succeeded in spite of being told by an Ivy League school that she wasn’t faculty material. Considering the male professor wasn’t discouraged, I’m guessing it’s just simple sexism.
Seriously, I thought this would spur some sort of discussion of “perceived value” in prestige academia, but instead it’s just low effort comments saying “slammed”.
We can agree, at least, that they were indeed "slammed", with, dare I say it, a thunderous "boom".
I wish that good people didn't have to struggle against the bad people that find their way to power, even in our cherished institutions. But... that's just humans, I suppose. The corrupt and cruel will always seek power while the good ones won't.