NATURE: "Lack Of People Of Colour In [Old] Science Images Must Be Fixed"
(vdare.com)https://vdare.com/posts/nature-lack-of-people-of-colour-in-old-science-images-must-be-fixed "Last month, Nature published a Comment article on how researchers and communities helped each other during a water crisis in Flint, Michigan. While sourcing pictures for the article, Nature’s photo editor discovered that there are few images available of the people involved, many of whom are Black.
Systemic racism and science’s diversity deficit extend to images, creating a distorted and exclusionary picture of science’s past and present. This is an issue that needs attention, and there are several potential ways to rectify it."
C’mon, Nature, stop beating around the bush and say what you really want: Photoshopping diversity into old photos of scientists.
