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Particle physicists are not happy with Alessandro Strumia. Last week, the particle physicist gave a talk at CERN claiming that men are innately better at physics research than women. Now, the high-energy physics community is pushing back.
The presentation, in which Strumia claimed that the reason there are more male physicists than female is because the men are “over-performing”, and that physics was “invented and built by men”, faced widespread and immediate backlash.
Many of Strumia’s colleagues, along with others both inside and beyond the field of physics, called the…
