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Bring Back Tim Hunt!

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Sue Campbell
11 years ago

How come the UCL Council was not consulted??? What's in their rules of Governance? The Royal Society should be deeply ashamed. of formally distancing itself from the Nobel laureate..

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pete burtns
11 years ago

It is an over reaction to have made Tim Hunt resign...he certainly should have thought more carefully about what he said but he did not say something that should lead to him losing his job...far to extreme ...

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Ka Kheng Tan
11 years ago

He merely spoke his true experience, he did not actually discriminated against any woman as his cv suggested. We still have single sex schools, which support good learning especially for girls. Can any one provide any evidence Tim has ill treated any woman? Tim 's summary dismissal is unacceptable.

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David Katan
11 years ago

Whatever happened to the British ability to laugh at itself?

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Beth Devonald
11 years ago

UCL should be disgusted wither way they have treated Tim Hunt, it' appalling.

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Christopher Baldwyn
11 years ago

Anybody with a modicum of common sense should realize that what was said was not intended to cause offence.

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Martin Ward
11 years ago

No comment, I fear it might offend someone...

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James Hunter
11 years ago

No person, least of all a nobel laureate should be hounded out of their livelihood due to a trivial, ultimately non offensive comment.

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MICHAEL JACKSON
11 years ago

The over reaction to his remarks is pathetic and ridiculous.

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Peter Van Eker
11 years ago

Fed up with all this PC nonsense ! Give him his job back now..............

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kate gray
11 years ago

outraged at reaction to his remarks so am signing petition to reinstate him

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D Jelley
11 years ago

Ridiculous that he was sacked for this.

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Pavel Hanc
11 years ago

Yes, he made an inappropriate comment, and no, he shouldn't have said that. But at the same time, is one unfortunate remark really more important than a lifetime of work? Is a silly attempt at a joke really enough of a reason to ruin a man's life and career? I think the people who started this mass hysteria should sit down and ponder on that.

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Roxy Phillips
11 years ago

Shame on you UCL for your pathetic knee jerk reaction. Are you still going to accept money from Saudi Arabia?

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David Mulloy
11 years ago

This is a very sad state of affairs. The powers that be at UCL should hang their heads in shame. Talk about a kangaroo court! Disgraceful!

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Neil Buchanan
11 years ago

This hounding of Tim Hunt is despicable and outrageous. Utter shame on UCL. The VC needs to consider his position without delay.

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Matt Kirkby
11 years ago

Although i did share a clickbait blog post about this subject, i felt his comments were taken far too seriously and his contribution to science and women in science over the years are invaluable. Bring a marketer in science, clickbair articles drive website visits, it was nothing personal!

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Mike Hally
11 years ago

Time to stand up to the twitter yob-mobs

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Daniel Popescu
11 years ago

Still, Tim was lucky. Alan Turing was forced to commit suicide for something about as relevant to his genius as in Tim's case: he was not sexist, he was gay.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

A ludicrous response to the mildest of opinion should be undone.