[meruru]

>they were buried under poorly understood and debunked science and statements that were easily misunderstood.

I didn't read his essay or follow this case at all, but from Wikipedia it seems he was arguing that biological differences between the sexes are a driving factor for the lack of women programmers at Google. That's a position that's solidly backed by the science.

[orwin]

And he based some of his example on "facts" tht were debunked in the 70s. In fact i think i remember one of his argument was so easily recognisable as debunked that i thought "Well, writting a paper on sociology without having ever read sociology papers, who taught this guy?". It's not even Donning-kruger, because he did not even had the basics.

I mean, come on, if it was a paper in any other field, even economy, people here at HN would have either ignored him or called him out.

Anyway he was dumb and should not have been fired (unless this essay looked like his work at Google).

[guelo]

The point of my downvoted comment is that Damore is not a good example of censored speech. You guys are on here discussing the essay because it is famous. Millions of people read it. Not sure why I was downvoted for pointing that out except that there seems to be a cult of defending the guy.