Taxacom: policing the scientific lexicon and misuse of the term woke

[Alexa DiNicola]

Thank you, Jill, Leslie, Frederick, and Michael.

Alexa DiNicola

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On Jun 17, 2023, at 10:32 PM, Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu<mailto:taxacom at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:

On 17-Jun-23 11:20 p.m., Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:

On the other hand, it was I who mentioned the women in science issue as an example.

* "...women scientists who are more interested in the issue of women in science than they are with the science itself" - thereby introducing what looks like gratuitous weirdness into the discussion. Are there any data about this, or is it just an anecdotal observation?

fred (old enough to have have had Bill Brown as a teacher, and to have learned not to name subspecific categories)
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