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Daily Mail Slammed For 'Profoundly Insulting' Column On Female Scientists Maggie Aderin-Pocock And Hiranya Peiris

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Post by Guest Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:09 pm

University College London has slammed the "profoundly insulting" portrayal of two of its scientists in a Daily Mail column, where it was suggested the two female academics were chosen to appear on a BBC programme because of their gender and ethnicity.
The Mail's Ephraim Hardcastle column said that Newsnight's "Guardian-trained" editor Ian Katz was "keen on diversity", adding: "So, two women were invited to comment on the report about (white, male) American scientists who've detected the origins of the universe – giggling Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Sri Lanka-born astronomer Hiranya Peiris."
The pair, highly-qualified scientists, were invited onto Newsnight to discuss the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 (Bicep 2), a specially designed telescope at the south pole. Described as the "Holy Grail" of cosmology, the machine detected gravitational waves, an echo of the Big Bang, the universe's cataclysmic birth almost 14 billion years ago.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/21/daily-mail-ucl-scientists_n_5005988.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

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Post by Guest Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:48 pm


Aderin-Pocock is an impressive and inspirational figure imo. I just can't understand the DM's stance here.

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Post by Guest Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:18 pm

Agreed Lovey. But then, who can understand the Daily Mail's stance on so many things.

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