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Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-deep-breath dept.

Lasrick writes "Danielle N. Lee, Ph.D, the Urban Scientist blogger at Scientific American, has been mistreated twice: once by the blog editor at biology-online.org and now by SciAm itself. The blog editor asked Dr. Lee to contribute a blog post at Biology-Online, and when she declined (presumably for lack of monetary compensation), the blog editor asked her whether she was 'an urban scientist or an urban whore.' Then, SciAm deleted her blog post, in which she wrote about the incident."

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  1. George Takei's response by Servaas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh My!

  2. Re:"according to emails which Dr Lee screengrabbed by Joining+Yet+Again · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I assume you're saying that you aren't a native English speaker. OK, no problem. To help you out, from the OED:

    a. to pass for (also as) : to be taken for or to serve as (usually with the implication of being something else); to be accepted or received as equivalent to.
    1463 in W. Kennedy Ann. Aberdeen (1818) II. 472 [The sum] wes nocht lachful na sufficiande to pas for payment.
    1467 Acts Parl. Scotl. II. 88/2 The aulde Inglis grot sall pas for xvi d.
    a1500 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) 6441 (MED), Oure foul wille at was so kene Shal wasshe away and passe for noght.
    1600 Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 54 God made him, and therefore let him passe for a man.
    1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. 17 Had Lucretius been only a Poet, this might have passed for a handsomly described Fable.
    1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 1. 5, I..sometimes pass for a Jew in the Assembly of Stock-Jobbers at Jonathan's.
    1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) I. 142 A very Considerable Number of masqueraded Shillings..so well disguised, that they passed among the Company for Guineas.
    1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. vii. 438 You pass for a kind-hearted gentleman.
    1884 H. Spencer New Toryism in Man v. State 1 Most of those who now pass as Liberals, are Tories of a new type.
    1954 F. O'Connor Let. 13 Feb. in Habit of Being (1980) 68, I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
    2002 Hotdog Feb. 33/2 Even expressions such as ‘bang-tail’ and ‘pinch-pricks’ (Whitechapel prostitutes), could pass as modern street slang back in the 'hood.