It's obvious you have chosen not to inform yourself about this particular situation before commenting. You didn't even read the BBC article which had a big bold,

"The decision follows an investigation into comments, first reported by BBC News, made by Prof Strumia at a Cern workshop on gender equality."

The trigger for all this was his presentation at a workshop dedicated to having CERN physicists making statements about gender. Weather you agree with the controversial statements by Alessandro Strumia or not is not relevant to the parent comment being wrong.