Janitors have had a terribly busy time this week cleaning up all those jaws that were dropped on floors of research labs everywhere around the country. Have you heard about this latest sexism scandal? Two female co-authors of a scientific paper submitted their work to PLOS -- you know, the open access journal. You won’t believe what they heard back from the lone peer reviewer. They were told to go find “one or two male biologists” to be co-authors on the paper to increase its chances of being published.

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