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Re: Bruno, Galileo, and Harvard University
- Subject: Re: Bruno, Galileo, and Harvard University
- From: flash flash@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:34:35 +0100
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.