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Since a high-profile astronomer named Geoff Marcy was outed as a serial predator who had harassed numerous female students at the University of California, Berkeley, between 20, multiple allegations of harassment and bullying have surfaced in news reports and on the social media against various top researchers and intellectuals around the world. Just as his words likely had a stronger effect on younger scientists in his community, his swift suspension by CERN has sent a strong message to a scientific community, and the academic world in general, already roiled by charges of gender discrimination and harassment. While Damore was lower down in the internal hierarchy at Google, Strumia holds important appointments and has made presentations at particle-physics conferences. Several physicists from around the world as well as from CERN have since signed a strongly worded statement rejecting Strumia’s views, calling some of his claims a manifestation of “academic arrogance” and contesting all of the data he presented in his defence as being either incomplete or inapplicable.Ī physicist and a biologist wrote in the New Statesman that Strumia was just banking on “bad science”: “Cherry-picking data to justify injustice is unacceptable in any venue, but to use pseudoscience to legitimise sexism at scientific meetings is an insult to the field.” of Alessandro Strumia’s presentation at CERN on September 28, 2018. One slide in his presentation showed that he had not been hired for a position at the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics even though his papers had been cited far more than that of a woman hired for the same position. According to Buzzfeed, “Also, he claimed, there’s a wider variation in intelligence among men compared to women – which would mean that the smartest men tend to be smarter than the smartest women.” In his talk, Strumia implied that there is no sexism in physics and that politics was to blame for the perception that there was. He was fired shortly after, but not before triggering a lopsided public debate on whether women were in fact as good as men when it came to certain kinds of tasks.
Damore had alleged that attempts by the company to promote women’s participation in decision-making were not meritocratic and was reflecting in poorer team performance. His views echoed those made by James Damore, a former junior engineer at Google who had circulated a controversial memo among his colleagues in 2017. Apart from being a visiting scientist at CERN, Strumia is a professor at the University of Pisa, Italy. High-energy physics concerns, among other things, the study of fundamental particles like the Higgs boson. Strumia was speaking at a workshop on “gender and equal opportunities in the field” of theoretical high-energy physics and cosmology.
The scandal, such as it is, was first reported by Buzzfeed News, which also stated that Strumia stood by his views following the suspension. Earlier this week, a physicist named Alessandro Strumia was suspended by CERN after he made sexist and misogynistic remarks at a presentation at the multinational European lab.
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