> A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear That sounds indeed like a

> A mathematics paper caused an uproar because somebody tried to show that it's mathematically possible for sex differences to appear That sounds indeed like a motivated actor. I'm not familiar with such a case, so lets keep it at that joke response. > The problem is that many of these motivated actors are in academia. Science and academia are part of society and thus will always have to some degree follow norms. To think the process of gaining knowledge can be perfectly separated is naive. Resources are limited, so we don't want to support crap science. Attention is limited, so the same is true for magazines. As such, it cannot be avoided to reflect the highly divided political sphere to some degree in science. Trying to minimize this seems good. But the author seems quite fine with getting the outside involved, since he expect it to help him for now.