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From: rwerman@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (ROBERT WERMAN)
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Subject: Re: Men barred from primatology conference
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Date: 29 Nov 90 23:35:56 GMT
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In article <8283@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern) writes...

>In particular, it is claimed that male and female primatologists
>report very different patterns of behavior; men seem, for example, to
>be much more prone to report male dominance.

>An all-female primatology conference still might not be a smart idea,
>but there is reason for it---it wasn't just done on a whim.


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     If you are talking about a political meeting, it might be justifiable,
and not done on a whim.

     But what sort of SCIENTIFIC [Primatology or otherwise] meeting prohibits
attendance of those holding an unpolpular [or in this case, a popular] view
of a particular set of phenomena?

     This exclusionary behavior puts the organizers of this conference
outside of the realm of science.  It has some of the absurdity of the
memorial service in GARP.

     It is in fact a smart idea politically, and serves to mobilize the
frustrated, create a new private in-group, and gain publicity.  But
science [let alone SCIENCE], no, no, no.  It is not science.


__Bob Werman
rwerman@hujivms
Jerusalem









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