Looks like my earlier post has made a bee line to the very same conclusion as the Sacramento Bee. In an editorial today the Bee calls on the UC Regents, who apparently meet in Davis this week, to “reinvite Summers to speak on issues facing higher education.” Of course, even if UC Davis does reinvite Summers, its unlikely that he would raise the issue of women and science. After all, Summers has already apologized many times for even broaching the topic. So even an invitation to Summers wouldn’t actually inject new debate into academia. It would only be a belated gesture saying that, if you raise a taboo topic, fully and repeatedly apologize for doing so, and then lose your job, we just might allow you to speak about other, non-related, issues on university campuses in the future. It’s a measure of how low we’ve sunk that, at this point, even that would be a triumph of campus free speech. By the way, as to the substantive questions raised by Summers initial remarks on women and science, my take is here in “Can We Make Boys and Girls Alike?“