UCL needs to be ashamed itself and dismiss the provost.
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Rich Jones
11 years ago
this signature is dedicated to all those who decided to take Gender Studies instead of any STEM subject just so they could complain about the low numbers of women in STEM. We see too much of this, one minute it's a shirt and the next minute it's a comment about falling in love and crying - I'm sure demanding that people get sacked and forced into apologies is really going to make STEM more appealing to girls/women.
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Hary Rybak
11 years ago
May science always win over ideology
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Florian Sieghart
11 years ago
The public "discussion" and libel on twitter is sickening - these "professors" do NOT deserve to teach students. Talk about setting a bad example by prejudging and smearing people.
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Per Bagmark
11 years ago
I of course support the reinstitution of Tim Hunt. I think a formal apology is called for.
/Per Bagmark
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Daniel Woodworth
11 years ago
It is nearly unfathomable that a Nobel laureate was forced to resign over a joke which, even if it had been intended to be taken seriously, had had no effect on his interactions with his female colleagues, as they testified.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
No one should be punished for something that was said taken out of context. This whole situation is ridiculous.
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Anthea James
11 years ago
Reinstate Tim Hunt
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Dr Violeta Vintilescu
11 years ago
When a society loses its sense of humour, it paves the way to totalitarianism.
The academic world was supposed to be the cradle of free thinking and speech. It should be run by scholars, not by managers. A true university leader should have defended the freedom of expression and should have immediately dismissed the attacks as infantile and slanderous.
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Anna Belak
11 years ago
This whole thing makes me indescribably sad. Tim Hunt is great -- let's please stop being horrible to him for no reason.
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Mike Jupp
11 years ago
A total disgrace - a lady who appears to have a femminist attitude as opposed to scientific !
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Anonymous
11 years ago
I'm very disappointed of what has happened.
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Dr Margaret Lovell
11 years ago
How can we ever be 'proud' of UCL graduation if this is how it treats the 'precious gems' of it's establishment?
Until Sir Tim is reinstated I am feeling ASHAMED on behalf of UCL.
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Roger Wilson
11 years ago
Best of luck.
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Sally Legg
11 years ago
Disgraceful society we live in Tim. All the very best. Hearing of your wife's upset was heartbreaking to me.
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piers jessop
11 years ago
i quite agree with the principles of this petition.
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JonathanRome
11 years ago
Yet another non achiever manages to publicise themselve, destroy the reputation of a great man & knock anoth nail into the coffin of our precious freedom of speech & indeed thought
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Mark Jones
11 years ago
the result of this witch hunt based on unproven comments made by a woman who has being shown to be dishonest via the false claims on her CV needs to be reversed! innocent until proven guilty was once a vital principle - now we are seeing mob rule
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Phillip Helbig
11 years ago
All decisions should be fact-based, and the decision to boot out Tim Hunt was not. Add to that the fact that the main initiator of this whole thing has been, to put it mildly, less than honest about her own life.
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david hughes
11 years ago
So typical of our reactionary knee-jerk withhunt society, where jokes playing on true general social interactions are treated so ridiculously. I have heard women stand up and say much more ridiculous things about men but we can take it and just laugh or feel sorry for the silly speaker, but nothing more. As it should be,
UCL needs to be ashamed itself and dismiss the provost.
this signature is dedicated to all those who decided to take Gender Studies instead of any STEM subject just so they could complain about the low numbers of women in STEM. We see too much of this, one minute it's a shirt and the next minute it's a comment about falling in love and crying - I'm sure demanding that people get sacked and forced into apologies is really going to make STEM more appealing to girls/women.
May science always win over ideology
The public "discussion" and libel on twitter is sickening - these "professors" do NOT deserve to teach students. Talk about setting a bad example by prejudging and smearing people.
I of course support the reinstitution of Tim Hunt. I think a formal apology is called for. /Per Bagmark
It is nearly unfathomable that a Nobel laureate was forced to resign over a joke which, even if it had been intended to be taken seriously, had had no effect on his interactions with his female colleagues, as they testified.
No one should be punished for something that was said taken out of context. This whole situation is ridiculous.
Reinstate Tim Hunt
When a society loses its sense of humour, it paves the way to totalitarianism. The academic world was supposed to be the cradle of free thinking and speech. It should be run by scholars, not by managers. A true university leader should have defended the freedom of expression and should have immediately dismissed the attacks as infantile and slanderous.
This whole thing makes me indescribably sad. Tim Hunt is great -- let's please stop being horrible to him for no reason.
A total disgrace - a lady who appears to have a femminist attitude as opposed to scientific !
I'm very disappointed of what has happened.
How can we ever be 'proud' of UCL graduation if this is how it treats the 'precious gems' of it's establishment? Until Sir Tim is reinstated I am feeling ASHAMED on behalf of UCL.
Best of luck.
Disgraceful society we live in Tim. All the very best. Hearing of your wife's upset was heartbreaking to me.
i quite agree with the principles of this petition.
Yet another non achiever manages to publicise themselve, destroy the reputation of a great man & knock anoth nail into the coffin of our precious freedom of speech & indeed thought
the result of this witch hunt based on unproven comments made by a woman who has being shown to be dishonest via the false claims on her CV needs to be reversed! innocent until proven guilty was once a vital principle - now we are seeing mob rule
All decisions should be fact-based, and the decision to boot out Tim Hunt was not. Add to that the fact that the main initiator of this whole thing has been, to put it mildly, less than honest about her own life.
So typical of our reactionary knee-jerk withhunt society, where jokes playing on true general social interactions are treated so ridiculously. I have heard women stand up and say much more ridiculous things about men but we can take it and just laugh or feel sorry for the silly speaker, but nothing more. As it should be,