A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications concluding that working with female mentors might hurt young women’s careers in the sciences has been retracted after fierce criticism from “group email threads” and on social media.
The research paper studied a variety of dynamics within three million mentor-mentee research pairings.
The academic journal that published the paper apologized for “any unintended harm derived from the publication of this paper.”METHINKS THOU DOST PROTEST OVERMUCH:
A separate editorial published by Nature Communications‘ editors also insisted that the retraction was not an attempt to censor inconvenient truths.
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