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Originally Posted by Blue Skies
This has been all over my Twitter and Facebook feed for the last week. I would like to make the following observations:
1. It took a week for this important topic to be raised in this forum (and I visit every day, even if I don't post)
2. It took a woman to post it.
3. When I first saw it 202 people had looked at it, but only 3 men had commented.
The silence is deafening. I hope that's because you're all having a good think about it, rather than pretending the issue doesn't exist here in Australia or that you're all above it. But you never listen to anything I say, anyway, so it wont matter, I suppose.
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Sorry Jacquie, I don't know what Twitter is and have deleted my Facebok account, but I too am surprised that a trolling post about moon landings being a hoax attracts far more attention than something as serious and as wrong as this.
It is a pity and a shame (on society) that these women felt they could not report these incidents contemporaneously as their suffering may have been less and others may not have become victims.
I could not care less how many exoplanets this person has found, for all we know those whom his actions caused to leave the field of astronomy may well have surpassed his endeavors had they been able to continue in the field.
A mere slap on the wrist by the University is a disgustingly inadequate gesture if the facts are as stated by the victims.