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Re: Bruno, Galileo, and Harvard University



Andy,
You don't have to go as far back in history as Bruno or Galileo to find examples of peer review turning into peer group pressure. Who was it at Harvard who was run out in a rail a year or so ago because he suggested, hypothetically, that one of three possible explanations why there are fewer women than men in mathematics is that (maybe) they're less interested in it? I forget his name now. He went on to bigger and better things after having left Harvard.