Remember that nonsense from Pamela Paul in the New York Times about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"?

No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable.

In any case, my letter to editor at the Times about that nonsense was just published.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/opinion/letters/science-diversity-equity-inclusion.html?unlocked_article_code=pbg9OxKceqaZrtpOfrp3MZd6Fngb2cs7UHIR7eSkY3IKfSgpa7tqQj9_ie6bdNLtoG4v0tQZhratBmt_f6jJM0DbhCTikM0cmCGydjdLbnfTleGdBUScsO0gc4JbiDmcanMoDK-M7Z1-ig9S6NwiIcnG_b-Y_gvnH_5VefwnVjQSXsf3ZSTWUAS5Q2Jbe2ttiXAyraghGMJ4PPDIFvT1nGJsSK_JlWmZGkSaIQQW-q4lJy4lscfDSozxJVwlBabd86hx7u9Mp5PBie9cYJCO1Qm6qzjsF7ynPQfbHCWPReFB8OR6nszE7QUd-MfI1IYsVCxm3XB4Ldm01uPqleQUNrrBmnPBICs3JW91j-7mwlkHZeNR&smid=url-share