Simone Biles condemns U.S. Olympic Committee, FBI for sex-abuse crisis
I watched a video the other day of a geologist talking about the fact that the hardest thing she had to deal with when working in Antarctica was the way her thesis advisor acted. And since she needed a letter from him to proceed then his threat of &quot;you&#x27;ll never work in science again&quot; had some basis in reality.<p>She talked about how deeply it impacted her but that she only reported when her 3 year old daughter said she wanted to be a scientist like her.<p>It did make me wonder about how we could restructure academia&#x2F;society so that random individuals don&#x27;t have so much power over other people. It seems like a recipe for disaster.<p>I wonder if this is where the seniority thing that people complain about in unions came from. If there&#x27;s some subjective element then you&#x27;ve basically given control of your whole life over to the person who makes the decision.<p>edit: one idea, randomisation. If you give the person in power the ability to choose X people, but then the eventual winner is picked in some documented and fair manner from that list, then that may reduce their leverage.