Don’t you think that is inappropriate? Whatever happened to simple disagreement?
I mean, if you are literally offended because someone does a bad job (in your view)… isn’t that a rather abnormal human response? Especially considering you weren’t involved with the Google internal memo personally.
Should you be doing research at all, if you can’t maintain emotional detachment from the results of other researchers?
I really fear for science generally when, shall we say, “passionate researchers” enter a field, and professional differences result in your taking offense. The WWF would be a better match for that kind of response. Their viewers love to see rivalries and grudges play themselves out.
I’m reminded that the church was offended with Galileo’s work too.
If you absolutely must pick an emotion to have when you come across work that’s not like yours (let’s call it a “diversity of results”), maybe you can bump it down a few notches from “offended” to “mildly annoyed”?
I suppose I appreciate your candor and sharing the feels… it helps everyone to understand where you are coming from.
Finally, you share links to several “thoughtful” pieces which examine the question if James Damore should have been fired. Since all of the pieces you selected are damning of Damore… one has to suppose that you never found any “thoughtful” articles that was unhesitatingly against his firing… but perhaps stranger, if you are supposedly talking about the scientific validity of this thinking, then why on earth are you doing a shotgun blast of opinion that attempts a clear justification of his dismissal? That’s sure got nothing to do with science.
To my mind you’re an Activist with a clear agenda. It bothers me that you are a researcher because I think that the politicization of science is always a bad idea, and currently at epidemic proportions.