In last week's show, we dropped a list of women scientists who made important contributions,

but whose names are virtually unknown.

We all want a better understand history, and so a great place to start is to better know

the full spectrum of people who contributed to making it.

But we couldn't do it all in one episode, and so today we've got another batch of these

great names from the history of science.

More Unsung Women of Science are coming up next on Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

More Unsung Women of Science.

There haven't been very many times when Skeptoid episodes got a sequel the following week.

I prefer to avoid multi-part episodes as the show format is to present simple, convenient,

bite-sized pieces of standalone scientific investigation.

But the volume of back channel feedback I received from last week's list of Unsung

Women in Science made it clear that the job was left woefully underdone.

So we continue this week with the most popularly requested women whom knowledgeable researchers

felt should have been included on any short list.

I would also like to address the flip side of the back channel feedback that I received,

which is that this subject matter is inappropriate for Skeptoid.

Indeed, pointing out women whose scientific achievements were overlooked or miscredited

to men because of their gender is arguably more of a social or moral quest than it is

an evaluation of the veracity of some pseudoscientific belief.

No argument there.

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