Lawrence Summers Awaits An Apology (updated)

The March 28th edition of The Weekly Standard has an interesting item in the "Scrapbook."

According to the short piece, 250 scientists have completed a a "full map" of the "x" chromosome. These findings, which were reported in the journal Nature, note that there is as much as a 2% difference between the genetic make-up of men and women. That, according to the Scrapbook, is greater than the difference between mankind and the chimpanzee.

Duke researcher Huntington Willard, who took part in the study, concluded "any of us over the age of two realizes there are plenty of differences between males and females that are characteristic of the two sexes."

The Scrapbook concludes, and rightfully so, "Alas, however, scientists have yet to discover an explanation for the inability of Harvard University faculty members to discuss this subject like grownups."

Too bad this study could not have concluded before Summers was dragged through the mud for daring to suggest...the same thing.

UPDATE: While Summers waits on the ever-humble liberal establishment at Harvard to retract their scathing remarks against him, John Kerry is in a perfect position to provide an example for them. After all, he played the dupe to Sandy Berger, called the investigation into Berger's activites a Cheney driven political ploy, and generally threw accusations around like combat medals.

This, courtesy of Steve Feinstein at The American Thinker, goes without saying:

One can only imagine if the situation were reversed and a Republican official had been caught red-handed as Berger was. If Condi Rice had stolen and destroyed classified documents in an obvious attempt to shield her political cronies from humiliation, the NPRs and Bob Schieffers and George Stephanopouloses of the world would be loudly trumpeting the news, over and over and over, for the “good of the country.”

God bless the double standard. It keeps the Democratic Party soft and ineffective.