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Re: hire more female professors
by dmm

You raise some interesting (non-PC!) points, but undermine yourself by exaggerating, and by not considering counter-arguments.

For example, "women haven’t contributed to a single bit to today’s complex science." (sic) Not to be rude, but that is just bone-headed. You should have said, "women have not so far contributed much to science, in comparison to the contributions of men." That statement is much more defensible. But what about the obvious counterarguments? That, until recently, women have not been allowed to contribute? You don't deal with that at all. Also, one could easily counter-argue that we might have done TWICE as well if we had drawn from 100% of the population instead of just 50%. You don't have any answer for that, either.

So, your post gets dismissed as a bigot's rant.

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