This wasn't some intellectual debate.
It was precisely that.
By all accounts he was given feedback on his ideas before the final memo went out.
By his own account.
In the very text he says that opposition to these ideas demonstrates bias and he therefore dismisses the very idea of being wrong.
Quote, please.
This wasn't some intellectual debate.
No, the reaction to the memo turned out to be screeching and namecalling.
Here's a feminist interviewing James Damore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SFLoKa8FdA
My guess is that both sides look at the worst of the other to justify themselves.
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Among the "pseudoscience" in the memo is one of the most important results in psychology of recent years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...
The study cited as "The Scandinavian Paradox" was across 55 countries and is one of the statistically strongest results in the social sciences, flat-out.