Now some liberal feminists have decided that Political Correctness is more important than science and have censored a mathematical paper they don't like.
A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them
At behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal's board reportedly threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/10/m...llette-pc-left
A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them
At behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal's board reportedly threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
At a faculty meeting the week before, the Department Head had explained that sometimes values such as academic freedom and free speech come into conflict with other values to which Penn State was committed. A female colleague had then instructed Sergei that he needed to admit and fight bias, adding that the belief that "women have a lesser chance to succeed in mathematics at the very top end is bias." Sergei said he had spent "endless hours" talking to people who explained that the paper was "bad and harmful" and tried to convince him to "withdraw my name to restore peace at the department and to avoid losing whatever political capital I may still have."...
Unaware of any of this, I wrote to Steinberger on November 14, to find out what had happened. I pointed out that if the deletion were permanent, it would leave me in an impossible position. I would not be able to republish anywhere else because I would be unable to sign a copyright form declaring that it had not already been published elsewhere. Steinberger replied later that day. Half his board, he explained unhappily, had told him that unless he pulled the article, they would all resign and "harass the journal" he had founded 25 years earlier "until it died." Faced with the loss of his own scientific legacy, he had capitulated. "A publication in a dead journal," he offered, "wouldn't help you."
https://reason.com/blog/2018/09/10/m...llette-pc-left
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