Alexis Smith

HUMOUR: Mandatory blinding deemed only feasible option for male scientists

Since the profound and extremely accurate remarks made by Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt — that having women in the lab always leads to romantic entanglement and females weeping whenever criticised — scientists from around the globe have been working tirelessly to remove this hindrance on scientific progress (women). In a confined space like a laboratory, after all, how is anyone supposed to get any work done around any distractingly sexy women? Finally, an answer has been found: compulsory blinding for all male scientists. “It’s a wonder the field even made it this far in the first place,” says biochemist…

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