Sexism as revealed by search engines.

Bomb test at the Bikini Atoll

One of the first skills to be taught for doing basic research — the kind that college freshmen do for a composition class, for example — is checking sources. Who or what is the source, what is the source’s history, and what work has the source done? And most importantly, what biases might the source have?

This may sound like a potential ad hominem fallacy, but it does not have to be. Our time is…