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Fighting sexual harassment in science may mean changing science itself

A recent report highlights just how prevalent harassment is in academic science

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KINGS OF SCIENCE Modern academic science is built as a hierarchy, with experienced, powerful professors leading labs full of younger people — a situation primed for abuse of power.

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By Bethany Brookshire

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