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Please don’t belittle Francis Crick by limiting his legacy to the theft of Rosalind Franklin’s data and scientific advances. The guy was also a mysoginist, a racist, a eugenist and a sexual harasser. A true polymath 🫡
The linked article has some top notch mental gymnastics. It goes through great pains to claim that Watson and Crick didn’t steal Franklins’s data (but were extremely cavalier about using it without telling her) and that they would’ve taken anyone’s data, not just a woman’s (although the data had to be brought to their attention because Watson didn’t take any notes on her lecture and instead only paid attention to her appearance).
I don’t know what drives people to make unfounded assertions defending the legacy of male scientists even while going through such lengths to describe the sexism female scientists faced. It’s like they want to imagine sexism was just something in the air that happened to affect women and not caused or perpetuated by anyone.
Thank fuck I was born in this era. I would totally be popping Qualudes in the 1950s dealing with this bs.
Didn’t she die before the Nobel was attributed cause she refused to wear lead vests?
Her death (whatever its cause) was the technical reason that she was not awarded it, but also they called her all sorts of horrid names including bitch. And to some extent it wasn’t even them but her boss that handed them her data… but again the name-calling behaviors and such reveal how they were totally fine with that arrangement. i.e., it wasn’t “just” the Nobel prize that they screwed her out of, it was all credit for it everywhere.
So it is one of those middling-IQ, low-EQ situations, as compared to e.g.:
Oooohhh! “Bitch.” Wow. Truly the most vicious of insults.
