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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by badc0ffee on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:37PM (#42892417)
> you cannot have a person going around with their thesis that women are objectively inferior engineers

Did you read his memo[1]? That's not really what he's saying. He's ham-handedly trying to look for reasons that explain the gender gap in engineering. His thesis is that fewer women want to do that kind of work than men, not that those who do take the job are worse at it.

> That person has to be fired (directly into the sun, when practical).

Meow!

[1] https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

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Re:NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive or... by jeffbee on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:05PM (#42892750)
His "memo" is a self-serving retcon of real events, which conveniently (for him) elides most of the insane things he said internally on mailing lists, Google+ posts, and in person.
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