3 Problems With The "Women In Science" Debate  The Times's John
Tierney is the latest of several to take the Larry Summers tack
of questioning women's natural aptitude for science. Here's
what's wrong with this argument, in three easy points that even
the simplest ladybrain can understand.  1. Questioning women's
intelligence is not "daring."  In his piece on women's relative
dumbness in the Daily Mail, psychology professor Richard Lynn
compared his own claims to the groundbreaking work of such
luminaries as Galileo:  As an academic, it's my job to tell the
truth, to explain the scientific evidence before us,
irrespective of how unfashionable my conclusions are. Big ideas
such as Galileo's theory that Earth revolved around the Sun,
rather than vice versa, or Darwin's theory of evolution, met
with vociferous opposition when first advanced.  Tierney isn't
this ridiculous, but his piece in yesterday's Times does appear
under the headline (probably, we should note, not written by
him) "Daring to Discuss Women in