Update (September 17): AAAS announced September 15 that it has adopted a new revocation policy for elected fellows “in cases of proven scientific misconduct, serious breaches of professional ethics, or when the Fellow in the view of AAAS no longer merits the status of Fellow.”
A petition by members of the scientific community asks the American Association for the Advancement of Science to remove fellows who have been found guilty of sexual harassment or assault.
“This is a no-brainer,” says BethAnn McLaughlin, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University who started the petition. “This is something the world’s largest science organization should have done when title IX came out.”
Title IX is a federal law, implemented in 1972, that prohibits sexual discrimination. McLaughlin’s petition, signed by more than 200 people as of publication time, urges AAAS to revoke membership for those who have been found guilty of sexual harassment, retaliation, or assault ...
