Tim Hunt
Tim Hunt deserves better
June 29, 2015So you’ve completed years of schooling, spent years of your life practicing your speciality, trained and supported pupils, helped advance global understanding in academia, won a Nobel Prize for your work, and then you make a few comments on gender and have your career and credibility destroyed. Sound fair? I don’t think so, either. Dr. Tim Hunt’s comments have created a storm of social media outrage: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls [. . .] three things happen when they are in the lab [. . .] You fall in love with them, they fall in love…
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A thank you letter to Tim Hunt
June 22, 2015Thank you, Tim Hunt. Thank you for successfully outlining the key feelings I have long held about what’s been holding back my scientific pursuits. In his progressive and insightful words to young science journalists at a recent conference, Hunt, a…
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HUMOUR: Mandatory blinding deemed only feasible option for male scientists
June 22, 2015Since 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…
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