Alessandro Strumia
Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story?
In recent and even not-so-recent years, the quest for gender balance in science and technology has taken some troubling turns—from the collection of male scalps over trifling offenses (such as the pillorying of British physicist Matt Taylor over a shirt adorned with comic-book-style scantily-clad babes) to the squelching of
Activists Must Stop Harassing Scientists
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Le Point and has been translated by Holly Haahr. Is this the end of the era of factual, scientific inquiry? In today’s labs, the line between affirmative action and ideological harassment is vanishingly thin. But prioritising scientists who
