Damore is not an idiot. The people who are attacking him in these ways are though: it's pure anti-intellectualism.

And by the way, counting experts is not a valid way to decide things, it's just a heuristic.

Damore has 5 who point out that he isn't making the science up, but what actually matters is that there are hundreds of studies and papers that support his basic position. Dr Soh points that out. It's not just her opinion vs other people's opinions. It's the opinion of thousands of scientists who have published research that shows all sorts of preference differences between gender.

Damore's piece can be read as supporting one of two policies, depending on how you interpret it:

1. Adopt alternative approaches to increasing the number of women at Google.

or

2. Leave things alone and don't try to interfere with the outcome of the standard hiring process.

I think he argued more for (1), in which case his "ideology" would if anything be rather close to Google's standard ideology and it's only a debate about means rather than ends.

But if you read it as (2), e.g. because he says he doesn't support socially engineering tech to get a particular outcome, that's still not an ideology. Doing nothing is not an ideology, it's an absence of ideology.

So I find myself disagreeing with you on this basic point. It's Google and Damore's opponents who are pushing an ideology here. Not him.