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...both of which he ties to an individual’s biological sex. In doing so he ignores the scholarship that describes ways in which gender expression and our perceptions thereof are constructed as a result of societal practices instead of from genetic blueprints. The suggestion that gender differences affect scientific aptitude is also problematic, as it reinforces a gender hierarchy that gives preference to male behavior over female behavior and fails to recognize other genders altogether. Additionally, these beliefs promote the anti-feminist message that women are able to succeed only to the extent that they behave like...
...It’s much better not to drink at all than to drink too much,” Stampfer said. According to Stampfer, there is evidence that even occasional excess drinking in young people can profoundly affect their cognitive health in later years and there is no evidence that they benefit from moderate drinking either...
...moderate drinking group were 20 percent less likely to show signs of cognitive decline during the two years tests were performed. Nondrinkers and heavier drinkers were not found conclusively to be at greater or less at risk of cognitive decline, and the type of alcoholic drink did not affect the risk factor...
Stampfer said that cognitive decline was an “enormous problem” for the elderly and that scientists currently know of very few ways to affect its course...
First Summers just stated a fact: that some researchers have hypothesized that “innate differences” between men and women affect their scientific abilities. These differences, if real, might explain part of the discrepancy in their representation on prestigious science faculties, he told a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last Friday. Nobody present at the conference has claimed that Summers said women cannot or should not be top-notch scientists. In fact, Summers is said to have explicitly hoped “to be proven wrong on this...