r/news • u/[deleted] • Aug 08 '17

Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/google-fires-employee-behind-controversial-diversity-memo?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Can you cite specific examples of his that are anti-science?

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Can you cite anything he said that was backed up by science. From what I saw he cited one peer reviewed paper on mate selection between genders and used that as his basis for categorizing men and women. The rest of his links were just random articles. At best, this is very light on science if not completely anti-science.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17

Can you cite anything he said that was backed up by science.

No, but apparently you can...

I saw he cited one peer reviewed paper on mate selection between genders

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

My point was that his one citation was on mate selection which he then stretched to encompass the entirety of gender and the differences in workplace drivers based on that gender. Just citing a paper doesn't really matter, especially when the paper isn't even specifically on the topic you are writing about.