It's Monday, January 22nd, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds.

I'm Indra Viscontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari.

Each week, we bring you a new, in-depth exploration of the space where science, politics, and society collide.

We endeavor to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it all matters.

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podcasting app. So we're in the midst of in some ways a new feminist revolution. The Me Too

movement has swept the world and every day

or every week at least it seems like another famous person is taking a fall and this is not

generated. It's a small share of controversy. Some people wonder whether flirting is now going to be

resigned to never, you know, to die and never

be a part of human culture. Yeah. And we're in this state where it started in celebrity circles,

or at least the big coverage covered, started in celebrity circles. But conversations are

happening with individuals across the world. And this is no more a U.S.

centric issue either. This is an international issue. And, you know, even the objective

professionalism that we associate with science has not left scientists immune to this particular

problem. We've already on this show covered a number of times how big the problem of sexual harassment

can be within science, but that's not what this show is about. This show is about how science

itself has gotten women wrong. What do you mean gotten women wrong? Well, the idea that there

are some ways in which science has just been wrong about women,

in part, you know, maybe because it's been male dominated for a long time, but also in part

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