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- https://quillette.com/2019/03/11/science-denial-wont-end-sex... (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360744)

"Not a week goes by without yet another research study, popular science book, or mainstream news article promoting the idea that (a) any differences between men and women in the brain are purely socially constructed and (b) these differences have been exaggerated beyond any meaningful relevance. More recently, this argument has evolved to contend that (c) there are, in fact, no brain differences between the sexes at all. Eliot’s article appears to subscribe to a hodgepodge of all three perspectives, which not only contradict one another but are also factually incorrect."

- https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-... (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539675)

"Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible. The best you can do is have a Bruno who questions both, but is savvy enough to know which questions he can get away with saying out loud. And the real Bruno wasn’t that savvy."

And pretty much as a side note, while some social differences ARE due to sexism, some others are because of more gender equality (and people being able to choose what they prefer, regardless of their gender):

"As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men" http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899 (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379943)