Today’s front page New York Times story on women in science. Is a classic case of the paper’s liberal bias on cultural issues. The entire story is constructed from the talking points of academic feminists. There is simply nothing here that is critical of the feminist point of view. When the Times stuck a deal to omit the comments of complaining students from its front page story on Columbia University’s Middle East Studies scandal, it caused an uproar–even at the Times. How is that different than putting out a front page story on women in science built entirely around the viewpoint of Nancy Hopkins–the professor who almost fainted at Lawrence Summers’s talk? Hopkins has long been an extremely controversial figure. Her claims about women in science have been disputed for years, here at NRO and elsewhere. So despite the efforts of the Times to admit and apologize for the Columbia story debacle, it would appear that, days later, the paper has learned absolutely nothing. The New York Times seems to be strongly in favor of workshops in which men can overcome their “unconscious gender bias.” How about a series of workshops in which MSM reporters can overcome their “unconscious bias” against conservatives?
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Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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