I have to say, of all the responses to my defense of the Feminist Glaciology piece, this one (and the others along the same lines) is not what I was expecting.
This is a pretty valiant attempt to defend the "Feminist Glaciology" article, which says conventional wisdom is wrong, and this is a solid piece of scholarship. I'll beg to differ, because I think Jeffery, here, is confusing scholarship with "saying things that seem right". https://t.co/hWFA6p9Ln0
— Simon DeDeo (@SimonDeDeo) October 19, 2018
https://t.co/d5yPa1pNzZ
What can we say about the article in general? Well, it doesn't break any new empirical ground, but rather synthesizes the work of others and organizes them together around the concept of gender. The article is quite clear about this at the outset. pic.twitter.com/6d4JTpnD29
— Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffreyASachs) October 13, 2018
https://t.co/UUm1Igqc0L
https://t.co/LYb2syoJtd
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— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".