[scoofy]

>Anyone who believes that women inherently do worse in STEM subjects needs to be called out, in the most negative of terms. No one should say it, period.

Outside of a university context, I would agree with you. Statements like this are the reason tenure is still needed in a university setting. No axiom should be sacred if we genuinely care about understanding the world and making the world a better place for everyone.

[yummyfajitas]

Outside of a university context, I would agree with you.

So non-academics don't have the right to an inquiring mind?

Also, what other lines of inquiry should be forbidden?

[toasterlovin]

Also, who watches the watchmen?

[scoofy]

Non-academics have a fairly well documented penchant for discrimination and ethnic violence.

[toasterlovin]

Is ignoring or hiding the truth (whatever the truth may be) ever a legitimate solution? Seems like treating the symptom instead of the cause,

[Kudzu_Bob]

That depends on the problem that is being solved. For instance, if your goal is to explain away what is obviously the case, then ignoring or hiding the truth is the ONLY solution. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"