This article uses a sharp example to expose one of academia's most persistent shortcomings: "We imagine that those who are not a part of our organization can't themselves be experts of—or well-read in—our field." What's more, "All of these barriers fall most heavily onto racialized and otherwise marginalized people (scholars included)." That's why, when MC Hammer expressed an option on the importance of citation, academia (represented in this instance by the Society for the Social Studies of Science) treated him like a novice. And quite rightly got its knuckles rapped. "lol, the audacity." Indeed.
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