UK physicist donates $3 million prize to boost diversity



She told the BBC that people from bring "a fresh angle on things and that is often a very productive thing. A lot of breakthroughs, she added, "come from left field."


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Sep 06, 2018
Much the same as always.
Instead of saying that lack of diversity exists, maybe there's a reason, which is what "science" supposedly would recommend, it's asserted, without proof, that all are necessarily all the same in every way and steps must be taken to create an artificial environment to make it appear that that is true!
Too, Bell Burnell did not, as such, "discover" pulsars. She carried out the process of looking at printouts of signals. She did not hypothesize their existence or design the equipment to detect them.

Sep 06, 2018
oh jp, still the sourgrape over having to go through toilet training during your adolescence?

Sep 06, 2018
JP is a case-book example of the prescriptivist and he routinely demonstrates why prescriptivism is generally disregarded: it's non-informative. His streaks of misogyny don't help, either.
