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Research Christmas 2014: Going to Extremes

The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 (Published 11 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7094

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Imagine if a study was done claiming that women were not as smart as men because most of the world's top mathematicians and physicists were men, I am absolutely sure that it would never get published in the BMJ because of its overt appeal to sexism against women and misogyny.

The Editorial board of this journal needs to explain why it allowed this study to appear in BMJ given its overt appeal to sexism against men and misandry.

Competing interests: No competing interests

14 December 2014
Ian Wilson
Astrophysicist
Liverpool Plains Daytime Astronomy Centre
New South Wales Australia