Feminists have chased away one of Britain’s finest scientific minds. Sir Tim Hunt, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who was forced to resign from an honorary professorship at University College London (UCL) after false allegations of sexism is now set to leave Britain for Japan.
Hunt was accused of sexism after aggrieved progressive journalists took Hunt’s ironic, self-deprecating comments about being a “chauvinist monster” and presented them as genuine. One of the journalists, Connie St Louis, was later found to have a history of exaggerated claims – : most notably on her CV.
A recording of Hunt’s speech eventually exonerated him, revealing not only that his comments were a joke, but that he had also gone on to praise the achievements of women in science. The President of the Royal Society eventually conceded that Hunt should not have had to resign, and had been the victim of a “Twitter and Media storm.”
Hunt said he had been “hung out to dry” by UCL, who had given him the choice of resigning or being fired.
Sir Tim, along with his wife, Professor Mary Collins, are now planning to leave their long-time home in Hertfordshire and move to Japan, a country far removed from western panics about sexism.
A recording of Hunt’s speech eventually exonerated him, revealing not only that his comments were a joke, but that he had also gone on to praise the achievements of women in science. The President of the Royal Society eventually conceded that Hunt should not have had to resign, and had been the victim of a “Twitter and Media storm.”
Hunt said he had been “hung out to dry” by UCL, who had given him the choice of resigning or being fired.
Sir Tim, along with his wife, Professor Mary Collins, are now planning to leave their long-time home in Hertfordshire and move to Japan, a country far removed from western panics about sexism.