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Comment author: ChristianKl 28 April 2015 10:21:50AM -1 points [-]

Estrogen does affect politics too, and when an experiment proved this and was reported in popular science magazines (scientific american, I think) the feminists lost their minds and demanded that the reporter be fired, despite the fact that both the reporter and the scientists were female.

The problem is that the experiment likely didn't prove it. A single experiment doesn't prove anything. Then the reporter overstate the results with is quite typical for science reporters and people complained.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 28 April 2015 08:40:31PM 4 points [-]

Then the reporter overstate the results with is quite typical for science reporters and people complained.

Reporters do this all the time. And yet they only get punished for it if the result is politically incorect.

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 April 2015 10:30:07PM 1 point [-]

Yes, reporters get away with a lot. That doesn't make it better.