They should have consulted you - the intelligent internet commenter - before hiring a team of profession engineers and planners who have actual experience in these matters. They would have saved so much money.
In the meantime, why don’t you also regal us with your armchair wisdom for Zoo management?

Meh. The dude from Finland is way more entertaining.

How exactly is one’s skin color or shape going to help unlock a fundamental problem in advanced physics? Please give an example of how such a problem in physics or math was solved because of skin color or shape, where white scientists overlooked the solution due to your assumption that all white people think the same…

Give the diversity schtick a rest. In the world where performance counts - like hard science, or the NBA - we need to hire based on talent, not demographic profile.

And as I noted above, he was also working off the base of knowledge provided by others such as Lorentz. And he did see things in a way that others did not. So yes, looking at problems in a new way is exactly what’s needed. But that doesn’t refute my point that it’s collaboration and exposure to both the base of…

So..... you don’t actually _do_ physics do you?

Yep because we know that all white males think the exact same way.

You do know being black in America is very, very different from being white in America, right?

Yes, but where does racial or gender diversity enter that equation? And why does your statement assume that a non racial or gender diverse group is unable to come up with different angles?

please explain how different background allows you to think 2*2=4 is not the only answer ?
Or how to solve high math problem or make new material ?

No a degree is what makes you qualified.

I would love to see more diversity in STEM careers. But attempting to malign the people who are already in those fields is the wrong way around. The goal should not be “fewer white male scientists”; rather, the goal should be “more scientists from everywhere, regardless of their gender or continent of origin”.

How would a differing cultural viewpoint have any effect in such an involved field of science? How would your race or gender effect your ability to tirelessly try iteration after iteration of ideas to hope you find a solution to one small part of the whole?

Yes, diversity is important. But diversity for diversity’s sake is stupid. If you have openings for 10 employees and the 10 most qualified people all happen to be white, who cares? The most qualified people should get the job and we should NOT be trying to fill diversity quotas.

Just have to sneak in racial politics everywhere. If the outfit were all “asian, male” or some other group that injection wouldn’t be present. Those damn white males.

Yeah except the injection of that line in the article is purely to draw in racial politics into the article, and throws the authors credibility into the air.

Ironically most advanced scientific research fields have a diversity problem of almost all Asian males, not white people. Honestly, I don't really care as long as the best and brightest are the ones getting hired.

I don’t even see how that particular bit was relevant to the article. =|

“We still can’t seem to contain the plasma within the magnetic field.” “Have you tried twerking?”

the Houston-style control center where dozens of (white, male) scientists crunched data