Could this be another case of lowering the standards and ignoring the results?

If you do not have enough things to be paranoid about consider this:

We are told that women lag in science, technology, engineering and math because of some patriarchal overlord or wizard who demands professors and textbooks use mansplaining language in all STEM classes and textbooks thereby making it impossible for women to compete on equal footing.  I accept the fact that women lag in STEM fields.  I make no judgement as to why. If forced down that road, I’d offer this: Math is hard.*

*NOTE: That reason happens to correspond to the exact same reason 90% of men don’t go into these fields.

So okay women, for whatever reason, aren’t as good at STEM as men.  Here’s where you need to get paranoid.  According to Robert B. Pettit “60% of all physicians younger than 35 are women.” 

A couple questions: Shouldn’t the gap in STEM between men and women have been closed BEFORE women over took men in the medical field?  What does the fact that “60% of all physicians younger than 35 are women” - while women complain about the STEM gap - tell us about the quality of the 60%?  These are not rhetorical questions.  What are the answers? 

When the military was ordered to lower the standards and ignore the results to allow women into infantry units, they saluted and dutifully complied.  The result is less qualified soldiers and Marines entering the field.  Is the same social justice manipulation being applied to the medical field?

Here’s the problem.  The wannabe generals can control the results at the Infantry Officers’ Course at Quantico.  They cannot control the results in places like Fallujah.  The same is true of the medical field. The Social Justice Warriors can engineer the results at med school.  They cannot engineer the results on the operating table.  

IU Health can do better on female representation

The photos in an advertisement for the new office of IU Health Physicians of Fort Wayne (in the June 2 Journal Gazette) indicated that only one of nine physicians there is a woman (11%).

Meanwhile, more than half (51%) of all medical students are women, both at IU Medical School and in the U.S. A total of 60% of all physicians younger than 35 are women.

Not only would IU Health benefit from a greater representation of women physicians in their practice, many of their patients would prefer women physicians.

With that large percentage of women in the number of physicians, IU Health can easily do better.

Robert B. Pettit

Fort Wayne  

It’s the sun stupid
Lex is a big climate change proponent.  Lex opens nearly every global cooling warming climate change disruption post by noting that the climate on this orb has been changing since Genesis.  I am a 100% supporter of the notion that the climate, as always, is changing!! 

I do not believe that man is the cause of any significant percentage of the change.  We humans are just too puny.  That may come as a shocker in the age of the ever present, endless selfies and self-absorption that has taken hold of nearly person in the developed world.

Here’s a very short, very elegant piece that makes the point in a way I’ve not run across.  Spoiler alert - the sun is very big and likely responsible for whatever climate change we experience here on Earth. 

For me, it’s also a very strong case for intelligent design.