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To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the Black Hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought backhttps://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bouman-black-hole-image-trnd/index.html
(CNN)When internet trolls tried to detract from Katherine Bouman's rise to stardom for her part in creating the first-ever image of a black hole, her colleague quickly shut them down.
Bouman, 29, created one of the algorithms that led to the groundbreaking black hole image. She also helped develop the imaging and verification process.
However, a nasty corner of the internet tried to downplay Bouman's role and started spreading posts claiming that Andrew Chael -- a white male scientist -- was actually the mastermind behind the project.
The misleading posts, on Reddit and Twitter, said Chael alone had authored "850,000 of the 900,000 lines of code that were written in the historic black-hole image algorithm!"
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)CharleyDog
(755 posts)forgotten women artists of Bauhaus and their forgotten contribution to the Bauhaus Movement and to art in general. There used to be a common refrain we women artists would constantly be shamed and confronted with: "why were there no great women artists"
This is why. The refrain also applies to other races. Even today millions of people believe women and other races beside white are inferior.
niyad
(112,426 posts)samnsara
(17,570 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,775 posts)niyad
(112,426 posts)getting old in mke
(813 posts)Chael told them to go suck lemons.
Saviolo
(3,268 posts)And openly so.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sad little boys, they are.
TheBlackAdder
(28,070 posts).
Instead, they sit on their asses, complaining about shit.
They probably don't volunteer, unless they get something out tangible of it... so that means they don't.
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Pathetic, weak-minded creatures.
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)Geez.
The whole team is brilliant for this achievement. Why not rejoice in ALL their success?
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)We need to stand up for women consistently, in this regard. Thank God for that honest man.
Science is a team effort. This man made clear that SHE had a leading role in this image, not him. But he and others ALL had a hand in it. Science is a team effort.