A foreign colleague once alluded to me as racist, for choosing an article written by a Filipina as the source for my column in a local newspaper instead of an article that colleague had written. Granted she was responsible for bringing in funding for the archaeological dig in the Philippines where the materials I were writing on were recovered, the analysis, however, of the materials was conducted by the Filipina. For this, I was tagged as a racist.
That colleague also declared ownership of the knowledge resulting from the analysis and the dates tested on materials from the site, forgetting perhaps the report had already been published on all media platforms (social, print—both scientific
