Cordelia Fine has won The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize

[DJBaggySmalls]

Congratulations to Cordelia Fine!

''Cordelia Fine has won The Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, worth £25,000, for her “provocative” book about gender which “debunks” the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus concept and poses an “urgent call for change”.

www.thebookseller.com/news/fine-scoops-25k-royal-society-science-prize-cracking-critique-men-are-mars-women-are-venus

[SomeDyke]

Excellent! "Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds" is well worth the read, and hopefully this prize will keep this book out on the front table...........As well as providing Cordelia with some readies.

I'm so pleased, I really liked this book when I read it, and would encourage others to read it too. The fact that the Royal Society saw fit to award it a prize should (hopefully) help to fend off the inevitable 'she doesn't know the science' jibes from the traditionalists and TRAs.

[AssassinatedBeauty]

Oh brill! Well done to her.

[doctorcuntybollocks]

'Delusions of Gender', also by Cordelia Fine, is £1.99 on Kindle.

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Her other book about the brain is very good too.
She is fab.

[PricklyBall]

Excellent - well done Cordelia. (Loved Delusions of Gender, must read Testosterone Rex).

[MrsTerryPratchett]

wildly.

Awesome work!

Do you think she's a MNer? I bet she is.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Oh and @DJBaggySmalls I want my fucking towel back.

[NoLoveofMine]

This is excellent (also I think she's the third woman in a row to win this award). I loved 'Delusions of Gender' so will definitely be reading this - scientific research which is badly needed at the moment I think...

[DJBaggySmalls]

MrsTerryPratchett
Calculating - is that a Pratchett...

[Trills]

www.the-pool.com/arts-culture/books/2017/35/katy-guest-meets-cordelia-fine-gender-bias-and-genetics

“This book is not politically correct; it is good science”, wrote Professor Agustin Fuentes, professor and chair, department of anthropology, University of Notre Dame

I liked this quote a lot.

"Political correctness" is just a phrase used for "something that I don't like because I prefer to hold onto my biases and prejudices".

[CalmanOnSpeeddial]

Congratulations Dr Fine (or is she a Professor?).

Wikipedia has informed me of the remarkable fact that she's the daughter of Anne "Killer Cat" Fine. Who knew?

[DJBaggySmalls]

Professor Brian Cox made some interesting comments;

''Cox, also the Royal Society’s professor for public engagement in science, added: “This year's prize goes to an exploration of gender and the scientific process more generally, and is considered by some to be provocative, although the very idea that a book about science as we currently understand it can be considered provocative tells me that there is something amiss in public discourse.”

I think he generally comes across as likeable and reasonable.

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

Brian Cox ... swooooooon^

And eh hem ... Congrats Cordelia!

[JessicaEccles]

I am surprised nobody has called her a TERF yet or demanded the book be banned...

[notafish]

That would also be Anne 'Bill's new frock' Fine.

[Trills]

I just reread Delusions of Gender recently and in it she mentions that her mother is a novelist.

She's certainly very good at WRITING - science communication is very tricky.

[53rdWay]

Delusions of Gender is fab. I can't wait to read this one!

[Auldspinster]

I knew her a bit when we were kids, she was lovely then.

[qumquat]

I've seen a few tweets from people I normally agree with taking issue with his book. They are saying it puts ideology over biology. I loved Delusions of Gender and can't imagine this is any less rigorous. Does anyone know what the fuss is about?

[AssassinatedBeauty]

This review popped up when I googled your phrase about ideology over biology: www.google.co.uk/amp/s/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/testosterone-rex-a-biased-polemic-wins-the-royal-society-book-prize/amp/

[Anlaf]

I also saw that, and wondered. Some seem to be claiming that it's all part of this 49 genders nonsense.

It's possible that they, like me, have not read the book. And are reacting to what they imagine the book to cover

E.g. This tweet thread has been retweeted by people I think are alright twitter.com/clairlemon/status/910450626395381760

[Anlaf]

Primary failings seem to be her disagreeing with Simon male brains do systems female brains do cushion covers Baron Cohen and suggesting that intersectionality (in the original sense) should be included in analysis of behaviour

[AssignedPerfectAtBirth]

I love the name Cordelia. Fav play

[MsMartini]

One of the judges addresses Ritchie's critical review here samgilbert.net/testosterone.html

[DJBaggySmalls]

AssassinatedBeauty
Thats an interesting review. I think people underestimate the role that emotions have to play in behaviour, and overestimate the amount of control we have over emotions.