Gender quotas have no place in science funding
The high status afforded to science in our society exists because it is seen as above politics. Enforcing quotas when awarding funding erodes this perception.
The high status afforded to science in our society exists because it is seen as above politics. Enforcing quotas when awarding funding erodes this perception.
Wishful thinking about wind and solar is going to come up against reality soon … and there will be a world of pain in the awakening.
The phenomenon of outrage going viral began with the Like and Retweet buttons in 2009. We’re stuck in a mutually escalatory cycle where no one wins and we all compete to waste each other’s energy and time.
We don’t believe in witches any more but #MeToo and Black Lives Matter showed that information cascades still wreak havoc on our societies.
The likelihood Australian journalists were going to find their own Weinstein story was always low. They should be investigating such crimes against our most vulnerable group: children.
The fanciful notion of the garment as a symbol of empowerment is only possible when the struggles of women in the Islamic world are hidden.
The world’s first nuclear power influencer is keen to detonate those old memes.
So why is it that some figures on the right now seem to be rooting for a Russian victory in Ukraine?
Australia remains paralysed and impotent thanks to our moratorium on nuclear power – Luddite legislation that was passed more than two decades ago.
Scientific publications are now boasting of their censorship to protect the public from ‘harmful’ information.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/claire-lehmann/page/9