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Posted on 06/10/2015 10:06:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
FULL TITLE: ‘When you criticize them, they cry’: Nobel-prize scientist says female researchers should be segregated
You might think it is the fact that you are vastly under-represented in science, technology, engineering and math. Or you might think it’s the fact that nominally esteemed colleagues shamelessly refer to you as “girls” and not “women.” But the real problem, according to a Nobel prize winning British scientist, is that you are all a bunch of weeping mushy hearts. Oh, and you should be segregated from men who work in labs.
“Let me tell you about my trouble with girls,” Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who won the Nobel in 2001, said to the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea. “Three things happen when they are in a lab... You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.”
He added that he was in favour of “single-sex labs.” But he “doesn’t want to stand in the way of women.” He just wants everyone to be able to do their work without girls crying and falling in love all over the place.
It didn’t take long for the Royal Society to distance itself from Hunt’s remarks.
“The Royal Society believes that in order to achieve everything that it can, science needs to make the best use of the research capabilities of the entire population. Too many talented individuals do not fulfill their scientific potential because of issues such as gender and the Society is committed to helping put this right,” it said in a statement released on Tuesday. “Sir Tim Hunt was speaking as an individual and his reported comments in no way reflect the views of the Royal Society.”
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well what about “Transgendered” Scientists? wouldnt they... if any such types exist.....prove an even greater ISSUE?
Definition of a gaffe....when some person in power accidentally tells the truth.
LOL...I manage a Rock Band with three single men and two women (one has a boyfriend, the other, me: a widow)All Bikers too.
And so far, NO sexual dynamics of the kind mentioned by this guy.
And he’s the scientist.
You can be a renowned scientist and a jerk at the same time.
Oh too funny,
This is guy is spot on!
It will be fun watching the spin that will occur on this one.
The truth hurts.
Id really like to see hard data on all these people who are not fulfilling their scientific potential because of their gender.
This crap is said all the time. How the hell do they know this and where are the numbers.
If anything its now boys who are not living up to their potentials because everything in schools is utero-centric and the boys are drugged.
Well, you’re not Fleetwood Mac, I guess, LOL.
Hmmm. I think I see the problem here.. He falls in love with every girl, they rebuff him, he criticizes them, they go to HR...
I have a hard time seeing the girls falling in love with him.
Ha Ha Ha!
I can sound like them, though!
So take salt-peter, Mr. Scientist.
There's no crying in science!......................
“I have a hard time seeing the girls falling in love with him.”
But then again, it is England - ha.
“And so far, NO sexual dynamics of the kind mentioned by this guy.”
Well, maybe that’s why you haven’t hit the big time yet? Worked for Fleetwood Mac.
At least he didn’t mention that women, on average, have almost 20% fewer neocortical neurons than men.
Well, the big time is not exactly what we have in mind, although some new equipment would be nice!
We are the Band for a Gospel outreach to Bikers. We now have streaming services on the internet, and several YT videos, and do mostly original Gospel/Blues/Southern Rock.
Fleetwood Mac is pushing a slightly different “religion”, but their music is real good.
(See, I’m not prejudiced!)
LOL...sometimes very high IQ’s come without the capability to empathize. There is only one world...their own. They are the only one person who matters or should have an opinion. My guess this guy is very hard to work with.
IS WHAT HE SAID TRUE?
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