..."Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he has a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, said to the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea: “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 with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”
Hunt said he was in favour of single-sex labs, adding that he didn’t want to “stand in the way of women”.
Well he won’t be standing in the way any longer, as he’s been forced out of his job. Didn’t he ever get the memo from the Sensitivity Police? It’s almost as if he’d worn a flashy shirt featuring women in swimsuits while announcing the results of space probe landing on a comet (remember that?).
The hysterical reaction to Hunt has gotten some pushback, such as this from Sarah Vine in the Daily Mail:"...
