Obama, beauty, and sexism

I had to laugh when I learned that Barack Obama who has often benefited from political correctness has been caught to the PC trap himself. A...

Klaus on abdication of Benedict XVI

I was sorry to learn about the reports that Benedict XVI resigned. Whatever the reasons behind the Pope's surprising decision were, the ...

HEP: the bias favors women

In the Time Magazine , when Jeffrey Kluger wrote about Ms Fabiola Gianotti, the spokesman of ATLAS at the LHC, as the runner-up for their ...

Anthem, foreigners, and PC: Czech edition

Related, political news: When Václav Klaus leaves the Prague Castle in March 2013, he will become a fellow of the CATO institute (search f...

May the name legitimately influence the fate of an application?

Yes. Cosmic Variance promotes something that feminists consider to be science, namely this paper in PNAS: Science faculty’s subtle gender b...

The West is nearly apologizing to hordes of bloodthirsty Islamists

Related news: A Coptic Christian has shot a movie revealing that Mohammed was a homosexual child molester, womanizer, and a naive fool. Thi...

Greek triple jumper and political correctness

Voula Papachristou is the hottest among the top Greek athletes who defended her 2009 European gold a year ago (July 2011) in Ostrava, Czec...

EU top politicians: Science: It's a girl thing

A reader named Cristian has sent me a link to the following 1-minute video produced by the European Commission, a sort of a federal governme...

IPCC votes to eliminate last traces of excellence

First, let me begin with another climate-related story I know from Benny Peiser. Four days ago, I mentioned two articles in The Guardian , ...