Researcher attacked by conservatives for daring to study (gasp!) sex-changing fish https://t.co/0A6CWcnWDm

— Alice Dreger (@AliceDreger) February 6, 2016

RTWT, but here’s the final paragraph:

Of course this is not the first time that people have said mean, misinformed things about a scientist on the internet. And attacking the NSF for funding research that sounds funny when described out of context is definitely not a new thing. Sen. William Proxmire handed out one of his Golden Fleece awards. to my PhD advisor for his own work on sex-changing fish back in 1978. Did I learn anything from my experience? Yes: first, nobody ever actually reads the whole article. Second, the words ‘sex-change’ will definitely not be in the title of my next grant. Maybe ‘gender transformation’ instead?