Selective referencing and questionable evidence in Strumia’s paper on “Gender issues in fundamental physics”

Despite overwhelming evidence of gender-related disadvantages, discrimination, and harassment (e.g., Brower & James, 2020; Budden, Tregenza, et al., 2008; Carli, Alawa, et al., 2016; Edmunds, Ovseiko, et al., 2016; El-Alayli, Hansen-Brown, & Ceynar, 2018; Guarino & Borden, 2017; Ilies, Hauserman, et al., 2003; Jagsi, Griffith, et al., 2016; Kabat-Farr & Cortina, 2014; Knobloch-Westerwick, Glynn, & Huge, 2013; Krawczyk & Smyk, 2016; Lerchenmueller & Sorenson, 2018; MacNell, Driscoll, & Hunt, 2015; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018; Reuben, Sapienza, & Zingales, 2014; Rivera, 2017; Rivera & Tilcsik, 2019; Sheltzer & Smith, 2014; Smyth & Nosek, 2015), Darwinist beliefs that science’s gender gap is best explained by a natural selection of the best and the brightest still echo in the corridors of many research institutions.