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Just another educated idiot with no idea how to relate to other humans. Just because he can't work with women without falling in love lust with them and has no idea how to debate without reducing people to tears. He might be an intellectual monster when it comes to cell multiplication but don't invite the muppet to your barbecue.
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]
Boris might be right that women cry more than men. But no reason for them to be excluded from the labs. Boris proves what a pillock he is, yet again. How long until he is PM?
I just hope UCL have no one who has continued at the college with worse offences. Whilst he was a stupid old buffer its not exactly gross misconduct. A re-education course should have covered it.
maybe he should have hung on and forced them to fire him.
serious or gross negligence resulting in unacceptable loss, damage or injury
intentional serious breach of UCL policy or regulations or improper conduct in relation to job responsibilities
bringing UCL into serious disrepute
serious breach of UCL policy on Harassment and Bullying
theft, fraud or deliberate falsification of records or UCL documents
assault or attempted assault of a physical or sexual nature
malicious damage to UCL property
deliberate refusal to comply with reasonable instructions or requests made by a line manager within the work place
a breach of health and safety rules which places a member of staff or others in danger
intentional misuse of confidential information
fraudulent misuse of the UCL's property or name
unauthorised entry to computer records or inappropriate use of UCL data or computing equipment.
A chap called Professor Tim Hunt
Thought it funny to speak rather blunt
On the subject of women
But it only did him in
He shouldn't have been such a sexist throwback.
Outrageous that this Nobel winning scientist, who has worked on a cure for cancer, should be bullied out of his job because of a single, small, possibly silly and possibly humorous remark. Absolutely outrageous.
Just as infamous as the bullying/removal of one of the astro physicists who put the Rosetta probe on an asteroid earlier in the year. Why ? He had a slightly saucy picture on his T shirt (if you looked very carefully). On his T shirt FFS. The chap had just partaken in, arguably, the greatest achievement in human history to date. But somebody thought a detail on a shirt was more important, more important to get their own way, more important to play a power game with the chap and make him cry on national TV. More important to get him to apologise for breathing. I repeat: he had just completed one of the greatest achievements in human history.
These are crimes against science and against education. The degree of spite and selfishness needed to perpetrate them is breathtaking. The instigators are boorish and ignorant. That the institutions involved allowed it to happen is an indication of the wretched condition they are in: cowardly, afraid and backward.
Outrageous that this Nobel winning scientist, who has worked on a cure for cancer, should be bullied out of his job because of a single, small, possibly silly and possibly humorous remark. Absolutely outrageous.
Just as infamous as the bullying/removal of one of the astro physicists who put the Rosetta probe on an asteroid earlier in the year. Why ? He had a slightly saucy picture on his T shirt (if you looked very carefully). On his T shirt FFS. The chap had just partaken in, arguably, the greatest achievement in human history to date. But somebody thought a detail on a shirt was more important, more important to get their own way, more important to play a power game with the chap and make him cry on national TV. More important to get him to apologise for breathing. I repeat: he had just completed one of the greatest achievements in human history.
These are crimes against science and against education. The degree of spite and selfishness needed to perpetrate them is breathtaking. The instigators are boorish and ignorant. That the institutions involved allowed it to happen is an indication of the wretched condition they are in: cowardly, afraid and backward.
Rosetta probe one was fine. People need to grow up about that. He was not anti women.
But Tim Hunt is. Pleased he left. People like Nigel Short and him are dinosaurs.
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