Women inside the NIH describe sex harassment.

[NNadir]

"WASHINGTON - Women at the National Institutes of Health faced sexual intimidation and repeated disregard of their concerns for the welfare of patients in AIDS experiments, according to testimony by two senior female officers and documents gathered by investigators.



One longtime medical officer at the government's premier medical research agency alleges that the harassment and disregard for federal safety regulations are so widespread that employees are now afraid to hold up experiments even if they see a safety problem..."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050411/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/aids_research_safety

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If you really want to get discouraged, read the messages/comments

to this article in Yahoo. The blatent misogynist attitudes comingled with hatred of gays and AIDS patients of the posters reflects why there is a problem at the NIH, which employs a cross-section of the population.

[rodeodance]

2. some of us on DU yesterday were rating this up-then the fundies hit it

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4. they must have re-started the rating/count today: Avg Rating: 3.56, 211 vo

[izzie]

3. I do not know where to find this but try----This place was just hiring

people of the right type and thinking. I read a number of things on this but it was a long time ago. I was sort of interested in it as it is a bad move to put these 'the world will end soon' into science centers. Does not speak good for this country when science is taken over by people who think the world is 7000 years old.

[rodeodance]

5. Yesterday's DU thread on this article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1384204

[rodeodance]

6. you are right-many comments are absolutely demeaning to women

from the yahoo comments to the this story:

U CANT GRAB A WOMANS TITS @WORK ANYMORE
by: xxxxxx (106/M/In darlas britches) 04/11/05 07:45 am
Msg: 1183 of 1187

Or you will have memos coming down on your so fast it will choke your fax machine!

[rodeodance]

7. Avg Rating: 3.56, 222 votes

[tigereye]

8. wow

astounding, especially at NIH. That is really disturbing.