Some objective benchmark yes, Nobel Prize winners no. There are too few Nobel Prize winners in the first place, the categories aren’t obviously the right ones, and the selection process is far too political.
There are 789 Nobel Prize winners. We can throw away peace and literature obviously, but the rest don’t seem to be that politicized, at least I doubt they care about scientist’s sexual orientation much.
It’s as objective as it gets really, and very widely accepted. If there are any known gay Nobel Prize winners, I’m sure gay organizations would mention them somewhere.
Yahoo answers can think of only one allegedly bisexual one, but for all Wikipedia says it might have been just some casual experimentation, as he was married, so he doesn’t count as gay.
If this is accurate, it means gays, at least the out-of-the-closet ones, are vastly underrepresented among Nobel Prize winners, definitely conflicting with the gay genius over-representation theory.
You missed Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a quick Google tells me. And let’s not forget those who weren’t Nobelists. I don’t think anyone here disputes that Turing deserved a Nobel or Fields medal, but it seems likely to me that he didn’t get one because he was gay. It would be hard to correct for discrimination & prejudice like Turing suffered.
Some objective benchmark yes, Nobel Prize winners no. There are too few Nobel Prize winners in the first place, the categories aren’t obviously the right ones, and the selection process is far too political.
There are 789 Nobel Prize winners. We can throw away peace and literature obviously, but the rest don’t seem to be that politicized, at least I doubt they care about scientist’s sexual orientation much.
It’s as objective as it gets really, and very widely accepted. If there are any known gay Nobel Prize winners, I’m sure gay organizations would mention them somewhere.
Yahoo answers can think of only one allegedly bisexual one, but for all Wikipedia says it might have been just some casual experimentation, as he was married, so he doesn’t count as gay.
If this is accurate, it means gays, at least the out-of-the-closet ones, are vastly underrepresented among Nobel Prize winners, definitely conflicting with the gay genius over-representation theory.
You missed Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, a quick Google tells me. And let’s not forget those who weren’t Nobelists. I don’t think anyone here disputes that Turing deserved a Nobel or Fields medal, but it seems likely to me that he didn’t get one because he was gay. It would be hard to correct for discrimination & prejudice like Turing suffered.