Scientific American In Blog Removal Controversy

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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"according to emails which Dr Lee screengrabbed"

[Joining Yet Again]

Does that pass for evidence nowadays?

Dirty Laundry.

[TapeCutter]

Yep, basic social protocols haven't changed in a long time. My grandpa would have summed it up with something like "Don't air dirty laundry in public". or maybe "take the fight outside". She used SciAm because it had the broadest reach, she was out to crucify this guy's reputation and kill his career, which he may well deserve. However by using, as opposed to asking, SciAm to build the cross for her she has abandoned the moral high ground and picked a undignified and unprofessional gutter brawl in SciAM's show room. Go to any testosterone fuelled work site and you will find both people in a fight will be looking at the sack, you will also see other workers try to pull them apart before "the boss sees it". In another words she failed to show basic self restraint in public when quietly provoked in private, she lacks the dignity and manners that even "Bubba the slaughterman" displays while he's on the clock.

Natural justice would see both of them out of the journalistic trade, but an "undignified and unprofessional gutter brawl" does have a way of attracting a crowd. ;)