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UPenn slammed for celebrating Nobel prize of vaccine researcher it once demoted (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.