The Sciences Grapple With #MeToo Revelations, Recommendations

The #MeToo reverberations just keep on coming, and the upper echelons of academia and medicine are the latest to brace themselves for impact.

Academia has seen at least 25 reports of sexual harassment in 2018 thus far. That’s according to Julie Libarkin, a Michigan State University professor of geocognition, the study of how people perceive and make decisions about the earth. Since she started archiving harassment reports two and a half years ago, Libarkin has logged 664 sexual misconduct investigations on university campuses across the country. These types of cases aren’t rare and don’t happen just “at the elite institutions ...