Sam Ky

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• October 18, 2015, on Women in Science:

  *The 'hazards' of the academic career track You say that a prof can be fired (denied tenure) at age 44 and then have to seek another job as a second-rate has-been, and you therefore recommend that he should have instead chosen a career in business rather than academia. But come now, people in business careers are fired all the time. And many people in business careers never get promoted to top management ranks. Another recommendation you proffer is that he should have become a physician, for which he would then now be a highly-paid specialist. However, I think it should be noted that nobody is guaranteed the medical specialty that they want. Indeed, every Match Day of every year, many medical students find that they were not matched into the specialty that they wanted, and therefore have to scramble into getting whatever they can (which usually means relatively low-paid internal medicine or family medicine). Regarding your other suggestion of the law, it should be said that most...

• October 18, 2015, on Women in Science:

  I think it should also be said that while Larry Summers lost the Harvard Presidency partially over his controversial 'women in science' comments (coupled with the Andrei Schleifer conflict of interest scandal and the Cornel West conflagration), he did not - indeed could not - lose his tenured professorship at Harvard just for those comments. University tenure confers the most powerful free speech protections of arguably any job in the country (the civil service perhaps being the only equivalent, which is why many members of the Westboro Baptist Church hold day jobs with the Kansas state government and therefore cannot be fired for their beliefs, however repugnant.} Contrast that with at-will employment in the private sector where you can be fired at anytime for anything you might say that the boss deems objectionable - and where the definition of 'objectionable' is whatever the boss wants it to be. If your support for the Boston Red Sox is objectionable to the boss because he is a NY...