(March 21, 2022 at 3:14 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:Well, do you think that making physics a boys' club is a recipe for diversity of opinion? Or is it bound to create an environment of groupthink and dick swinging?(March 21, 2022 at 3:06 pm)Istvan Wrote: As I said, it's wrong to make scientific inquiry synonymous with "reality." We're talking about scientific fields, in which women still face bias and exclusion on many levels. I have no reason to believe that this won't distort the reliability of the results, and every reason to believe that your belief in the "self-correcting" nature of scientific endeavor is a bit optimistic.
Are you saying that because there are fewer women physicists, that physics has gender-biased errors?
A friend of the family is a biologist whose theory about tadpoles being able to hatch in response to environmental pressures was initially ridiculed by the men in the field. Her determination in setting up elaborate experiments and gathering evidence finally vindicated her, but how much research hasn't been performed because of the condescension of the male establishment in various disciplines?
Different people, Prof. Warkentin likes to say, ask different questions.
Escape hatching in red-eyed tree frogs
