I agree about Hillary and her corrupt money, but do you really believe labor unions are "Marxist"? You're too big be that stupid.

"If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy." -- Warren Buffet

collect my resume and my salary

What happens if you don't give them your salary? I've never, ever given a prospective employer my current salary. But my prospective employer days are behind me. Maybe things have changed and this is de rigueur now.

Basically, the thing may well work, but if it does work, it's very unlikely that the explanation that its inventor has provided is legitimate.

If it works, then the explanation the inventor provided is irrelevant. Someone else will come up with a better explanation. I doubt anyone would say, "we shouldn't continue testing this EM engine thingy because we don't know why it works."

Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good, you know?

I agree that women suffer more from sexism. I disagree very much about the "especially in STEM/academia". These are probably the areas where women suffer the least, and have many people leaning over backwards to help them. To say that a woman working as a programmer at Google, or trying to get tenure at Stanford, suffers more than a women working in a sweatshop to feed her family is absurd. If you want to see sexism and suffering, you need to look at the people at the bottom of the economic ladder, not the people at the top.

Scientific journals should be ethical. If a review is rejected as inappropriate, they should just say so. Lying about it, as you suggest, is not ethical.

You guys didn't believe me when I said that Friday night is "MRA Clickbait Night" on Slashdot.

And here it is, right on time. Every Friday night since I noticed the pattern back in December, like clockwork. Sometimes the article is fer it, and sometimes it's agin' it but it always brings out the most charming fellows and their insightful opinions that "Bitches, man. They're spoiling everything.".

Slashdot really knows its audience, I'll give it that.

I own a 2001 Honda Insight hybrid modified to be a PHEV and plugged in nightly to charge on geothermal power.... and a Ford Ranger ;) The "why" is obvious, because I have regular needs to carry big heavy things, now that I own land in the countryside. Back when I had no such need... I didn't own any such vehicle.

I guess it's hard for him to imagine that a woman would have a need to carry large and/or heavy items?

Is that enough?

No that's not enough! I need to know what Penn and Teller say about this or no dice.

And the crazy thing is, they did consult with male colleagues before publishing. The reviewer just assumed that because two women submitted a paper with a conclusion that he disagreed with, that it's specifically because they're women "making ideologically biased assumptions" who refuse to talk to men.

I really need one of those for my car ASAP.

Forget the car. I'm packing for Alpha Centauri. By the way, anyone know what the weather is in Alpha Centauri? I mean, will I need a sweater?

Hint: there's a very, very good reason why it is not in a peer-reviewed journal.

And what is that reason?

The creationists must have done good work in america to destroy the "faith" in science!

That's not it so much as the fact that pop science "skeptics" don't believe something works until Neil Degrasse Tyson and James Randi say it works.

There is nothing scientific about pop skepticism. It's entirely about hero worship and being a dick.

I prefer Penn and Teller. Much more entertaining.

Yes, by all means bring them in to see whether or not the EM drive actually works. Because libertarian douchebags are notoriously expert at everything, especially physics and astronautics. Just ask them.

it seems a/etheletes are cheating

Why should they be any different than regular athletes?