• ‘Physics was built by men’: Cern suspends scientist over remarks
If anywhere were to be immune from our planetary post-fact plague, you’d think it would be the realm of nuclear physics. Cern – the nuclear research centre in Geneva, currently at the centre of a sexism row – spends a billion dollars a year looking for evidence of a particle, for goodness sake. These guys deal in facts like no one else. That didn’t stop the male physicist Alessandro Strumia using a speech at the centre to make the totally nonsensical claims that women have made no contribution to physics and now enjoy so much support to enter science that men have become victims of discrimination.
I can only assume Strumia is following the well-rehearsed technique of making some essentialist comment that has no basis in fact, and then when hit by a backlash – Strumia has already been suspended by the University of Pisa – becoming a martyr, falling nobly on one’s sword at the hands of the militant politically correct.
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