Summers: Women give birth better
This article is a part of The Daily Princetonian's annual joke issue. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.Former Harvard president Larry Summers, whose remarks that women may lack "intrinsic aptitude" in science helped spur his resignation last year, is again on the defensive after another controversial statement.The contention revolves around a speech Summers gave this week to the Organization for Surgery, Health, Infection and Treatment, in which he suggested that women may be "intrinsically better" than men at giving birth."So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is ... the general clash between people's legitimate family desires [and the facts of anatomy]," Summers said, referring to higher rates of motherhood among women."There are issues of intrinsic aptitude ... I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them."Many of Summers' peers in academia blasted his comments."As a former dean of a medical school, I was appalled at his lack of wisdom," molecular biology professor Leon Rosenberg said.