72 year old biochemist and nobel laureate out of a job tonight for saying women

[applegrove]

in the lab cry and fall in love with men. CTV news. Tim Hunt is his name.

[TDale313]

1. Good.

[Kalidurga]

2. Yep he went off the rails.

Given what he said he should have known hell hath no fury

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/tim-hunt-nobel-laureate-resigns-sexist-women-female-scientists.html

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. From a bygone era

Where a woman's goal was to catch a good husband and men were allowed to discriminate...after all women are so emotional.

My old boss, about the same age, used to tell me how he liked big boobs on his employees. Swear.

[stevenleser]

4. It's a little more than that. He said women should be segregated from men in the workplace

because they are a distraction in the lab.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/tim-hunt-nobel-laureate-resigns-sexist-women-female-scientists.html?_r=0

LONDON — A Nobel laureate has resigned as honorary professor at University College London after saying that female scientists should be segregated from male colleagues because women cry when criticized and are a romantic distraction in the laboratory.

The comments by Tim Hunt, 72, a biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for groundbreaking work on cell division, added fuel to a global cultural debate about discrimination against women in science.

“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls,” Mr. Hunt said Monday at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea. “Three things happen when they are in the lab: You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them they cry.”

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Women and men from science and from other fields were quick to join her in denouncing Mr. Hunt.

Prof. Sophie Scott of University College London, who researches the neuroscience of voices, speech and laughter, wrote on Twitter, “I am in the office, but I can’t do my science work as I saw a photograph of #TimHunt and now I’m in love, dammit.”

LOL at comments by Prof. Scott!!

[applegrove]

5. Thanks for posting the article. I looked. but not hard enough.

[Xipe Totec]

6. There is no code of silence in science

No amount of laurels or past triumphs will protect you if you truly go out on a limb and fuck things up royally.

This is not the police department.

[niyad]

7. good riddance

[TDale313]

8. Just FYI, if you want to see...

Some great responses to the original comments, check out #distractinglysexy on Twitter.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Well, how many times do you advocate segregation

until people decide it's a problem? I think once is enough.