{"id":8705,"date":"2013-10-17T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T01:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=8705"},"modified":"2013-10-17T21:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T01:16:58","slug":"wrong-wrong-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2013\/10\/17\/wrong-wrong-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, Wrong, Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me say these things, because they are important. Bora was wrong. Scientific American was wrong. Ofek was wrong, Wrong, WRONG<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you follow science blogs beyond this one, you have no doubt run across the gigantic debacle that erupted this past weekend; if not the first few paragraphs of this Slate piece<\/a> give a reasonably compact summary. The shorter short form is: an editor at a blog network called Danielle Lee a whore (which was wrong), she wrote a blog post about it (emphatically not wrong), and the responses to that splattered a gigantic festering mess of Wrong all over everything.<\/p>\n

So, let’s be clear on three things: <\/p>\n

1) What “Ofek,” the editor at Biology Online did was utterly and completely outrageous, and he richly deserved to be fired. That would be unacceptable behavior from a lone castaway on a deserted island, let alone anyone with a position of power in a civilized company.<\/p>\n

2) Scientific American was wrong to pull Lee’s blog post, and utterly bungled the handling of that decision. They deserved to be called out for that.<\/p>\n

3) Bora Zivkovic was wrong to have unwarranted sexual discussions with women who had approached him in a professional context. If you doubt that, read this highly personal account<\/a> of some of the incidents. That was unprofessional, unacceptable behavior for a person in his position.<\/p>\n

I have avoided commenting previously because there are aspects of the way these situations have unfolded about which I am deeply conflicted. I think these are important, but at the present moment it’s not possible for me to discuss them in a way that would be productive. And I thought it would be better to say nothing at all until I had time to explain those issues properly than to try to rush a comment out and end up saying something that would actively make things worse.<\/p>\n

As discussions on Twitter and elsewhere have made it clear that silence is being taken as unwarranted support for general wrongness, though, I think it’s important to say these things. Bora was wrong, Scientific American was wrong, and Ofek was staggeringly, stupefyingly wrong<\/em>. I do not accept or endorse any of the things that they did, and my lack of statement should not be taken as any hint of agreement with them.<\/p>\n

There are, as I said, other issues raised by this that bother me, and I may come back to those later. Or I may never have the time to do justice to them. It’s not a set of topics I’m going to enjoy writing about.<\/p>\n

But make no mistake, Bora, Scientific American, and Ofek were all wrong, wrong, wrong. We should all be able to agree on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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