What a Piece of Work is This Man

Y'know, "Two Trucks" Summers . Here is the full transcript of his remarks at the NBER conference. His remarks are even worse than I thought.

The speech itself is repetitive and dull and convoluted. And yet he manages to insult not only women, but Catholics, investment bankers, Jews, farmers, whites, African-Americans, NBA players, cardiac surgery residents, immigrants and the children of immigrants. It's like fruitcake, in prose form.

My favorite part is the Q/A which got rather testy with actual scientists who did the actual research disagreeing with his "hypothesis". Here is my favorite exchange:

Two Trucks: ".....I'm going to run out of time. But, let me take-if people ask very short questions, I will give very short answers."

Smarter Person: "What about the rest of the world. Are we keeping up? Physics, France, very high powered women in science in top positions. Same nature, same hormones, same ambitions we have to assume. Different cultural, given."

Two Trucks: Good question. Good question. I don't know much about it.....

But you don't have to just take my word for it. Here's what a female professor with a husband and a kid thinks about Larry Summers.. Hint: She's not happy and she is Bitch, PhD, my new hero.