and scully didn't just change fox mulder the fictional f.b.i. she changed how we looked at women in the fields of science technology engineering and math more importantly how women view themselves in those fields it turns out the scully effect is real and all those young women watching dana scully a character who didn't look like the baywatch babes of the one nine hundred ninety s. were actually inspired to go into stem fields. scully had an undergrad in physics a couple of stanford doctorates and she did it all in sensible shoes while giving perfect eye rolls to mulder's ever increasing and maurizio any theories that usually ended up being true to what we watch makes a difference and dana scully made us all believe that science is a human pursuit not just a male one and that the truth knows node gender in the words of dana scully don't underestimate women don't underestimate women how to out of the rest about go or not as they can be tricksters tale oh no oh yeah those really well done congrats to david scully's character of the people who put