Thanks to my ever-observant brother and his wife, they brought to my attention an egregious oversight, albeit an innocent one. Read the post prior to this one...
I am among the masses who were taught that Crick and Watson made the ground-breaking discovery of the DNA working model through x-ray crystallography...if I was taught the 'truth' that follows, I don't recall it...
They didn't discover it...at least not on their own...worse yet, they basically stole ideas of another researcher without giving her due credit. The 'her' part to this is significant in its own right, which happens to be yet another soapbox of mine. Read on...
Let the record show that Rosalind Franklin should be credited with the crystallography discovery of the double-helix shape of DNA...click here to read up on all the unsavory details of how the ideas were lifted and not credited...
Unfortunately, we all just 'assume' that society is patriarchal and 'okay' as such...and it simply isn't true. Even to this day there is a male-biased dominance in just about every arena society has to offer, and in no way is that to suggest that it is 'right'...many merely have accepted it while others stamp their feet in knowing disapproval of a faulty paradigm, as well they should.
We should all be equal, because we inherently are. Pay, status, importance, you name it...sex should not enter into the equation. Sadly, it continues to do so even today.
Rosalind Franklind didn't stand a chance in the male-dominated world of scientific forays decades ago, and certainly had no chance against her cancer which took her rich life at such an early age.
We reap what we sow. Make sure you sow seeds of fairness and That Which Is Right in your day to day life, assuming that's the type of world you want to live in. I sure do. Thanks, Bunky and Sue!
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