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President Obama considering Larry Summers for Treasury position

This is just messed up.
I’m sure you all remember Larry Summers as the clown who claimed that one of the reasons women are so rare in the sciences is that our little brains can’t hack it. This was irresponsible enough (the latest research indicates there *are* no significant differences between men and women in any mathematic task but 3d rotation, which is unimportant in most sciences, and besides, the same research Summers was looking at says women are more verbal, and I’m not seeing us dominating the writing industry). However, it turns out that there are many other reasons to want Summers kept far, far away from power.