Commentary
A few months ago, a few dozen women gathered in a room in Sydney to participate in a Wikipedia “edit-a-thon,” aimed at writing profiles of women in STEM, heaping praise on these academics simply because they are female. In two hours, the group had created nine new profiles about female scientists/researchers and edited 22 existing profiles to make them sound even better.
It is all part of a huge promotional campaign—the massive remake of science where stale white male scientists no longer deserve attention, no matter what their achievements.
All the attention now is on pushing women into positions of prominence in the STEM world, with “gender equity” deemed far more important than traditional considerations of merit and rigor….