Controversial

A group of scientists have found that men may think 4% faster than women. (That'll explain why they act so rashly when they think someone's insulted them in a bar)

However, most experts point out that the differences are quite small compared with the similarities and that there is far more variation between individuals than between genders.

Professor Steven Rose, director of the brain and behaviour research group at the Open University, said previous studies suggested no difference in decision-making between men and women. “It is true that men and women use different parts of the brain for similar tasks but the time taken to complete the tasks is identical.”

Bea Campbell, the feminist writer and historian, also questioned the findings. She said: “The distribution of intelligence is much the same for all genders and all races. Our experience and common sense tells us that the quest to prove one or another biological group is brainier than the other is really a vain exercise.”

History has fallen under the grip of politics in the United States. A book by right-winger Thomas E. Woods claims that many of things we believe to be true just weren't.

According to The Politically Incorrect Guide to the History of America, a surprise bestseller, early settlers treated native Americans — whom it calls Indians — with respect, buying rather than stealing their land. President Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated the slaves, was opposed to racial intermarriage and did not launch the civil war to free black people, the book says

The tragic thing about this is that the book has proved to be a bestseller and there are people in America like this:

Politically correct teaching in schools has long been a gripe of the right. Noreen McCann, 45, home-schools her six children in St Louis, Missouri, rather than expose them to left-wing thinking.

“I think Christopher Columbus was a good person for discovering America and I teach my children that he wanted to become wealthy and spread the Catholic faith to America,” she said. “I tell them, ‘Your daddy also wants to help people through charity and make money for himself and his family’.”