by DAVE MUNGER
In 2005, when Janet Stemwedel started her blog Adventures in Ethics in Science, she used the pseudonym “Dr. Free-Ride.” The San Jose State University philosopher wrote about pertinent issues in academic life and science ethics, combining personal anecdote with scientific research and reasoning. “I was routinely gendered as male by my readers,” she says, and her arguments were taken seriously. But a year later, when she began blogging under her own name, “it seemed as if some readers were more comfortable dismissing my blog as not serious, not scientific enough,” even though, to her mind, her posts focused more on straight science than before.
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