“SEXIST SCIENTIST” TIM HUNT: THE REAL STORY, from Cathy Young at Real Clear Politics:

Remember Tim Hunt, the Nobel Prize-winning British biochemist mocked and vilified on Twitter and in the media after he reportedly told a gathering of women scientists that “girls” in the lab are a nuisance because they are lovesick crybabies, and suggested sex-segregated labs as the solution? Remember how we were told that this shocking incident reveals still-entrenched sexism in the world of science?

Well, now that the dust has cleared and the story has faded from the American press, there’s a postscript that amounts to: “Never mind.” It turns out that, just as Hunt has claimed, the 72-year-old scientist’s comments during a luncheon at a science journalism conference in Korea in June were an awkward self-deprecating joke—greeted with laughter (not the reported “stony silence”) by a mostly female audience. The “Tim Hunt, misogynist scientist” narrative has been falling apart piece by piece over the past month; last week, it was finished off by a snippet of audio recorded by a female attendee and made public by The Times. Now, attention should turn to the real scandal: irresponsible journalism magnified by social media frenzy.

OK, maybe he’s not guilty of mansplaining – this time. But perhaps we should reserve judgment on returning this white cisgender heteronormative scientist to his alleged task of curing cancer until we can confirm what sort of shirt he was wearing at the time.

(Did I get the jargon right? I’m not up on the lingo the cool SJW kids are using these days.)

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