Female duo show there’s no place for chauvinism

Clr Peter McBride refers to continual growth in housing - where exactly does he mean since all of Birchencliffe and Lindley is now one large building site? Does he mean he could stick a few hundred houses on the roundabout!? The air quality is already proven to be sub-standard. How can that be improved? Don’t forget the ambulance lane to Halifax - how’s he going to squeeze that one in!? Speed at rush hour is not even 20 mph. I have never known it to be 40 mph apart from the middle of the day and Sundays. Murray Walker, former motor racing commentator,

Nicholas Parsons radio and TV personality, Judith Chalmers TV presenter, Charles Dance, actor, Chris Tarrant, broadcaster, Midge Ure, rock singer,

Fiona Fullerton, actress, Martin Kemp, actor/musician, Tony Adams, former footballer and manager, Sir Matthew Pinsent, Olympic gold medal rower, I WAS glad to see that a woman, Frances H Arnold of Caltech, has won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and that another woman, Donna Strickland, has likewise won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Indeed only one person in the history of the world has ever won the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry and set a unique precedence and that person was a woman also (not a man) – Marie Skłodowska Curie, who basically gave her life for science as her groundbreaking research led to her death through cancer.

Indeed a man has never achieved this unparallel feat. Therefore it makes the recent revelations at CERN by Alessandro Strumia absolute nonsense in that ‘Physics was built by men.’

It is a good thing therefore that women over the last 150 years have come out of the dark ages where only men were thought to have a brain.

For male chauvinistic values – if we are to save the planet from ourselves – has no place in the ever evolving future hightechnology world of this century and beyond, and the sooner that male scientists accept this the better it will be for science and also for humankind’s ultimate destiny in eventually discovering itself and ultimately for its very survival.