Not exactly a surprise here. I knew it was coming. You could hear the Army of the Politically Correct Thought circling.
Yesterday, I featured news that Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt said that female scientists cause trouble for men in labs.
He said that scientists should work in gender-segregated labs and that the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them. He also said that he was in favor of single-sex labs, adding that he didn’t want to “stand in the way of women”.
Today comes news that he has resigned from his position at University College London.
In a statement published on its website, UCL said that it could confirm that Hunt had resigned on Wednesday from his position as honorary professor with the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences, “following comments he made about women in science at the World Conference of Science Journalists on 9 June”.
What a tragedy. The man is a genius in the field of medical research. Does it really matter what his views on women are? Are we not allowed non-mainstream views,if they in no way violate the non-aggression principle?
What happened to the notion that differing views regardless of popularity can be held and debated out in major educational institutions?
When I hire people, I look at their ability to accomplish the work I hire them to do, not their views on things that have nothing to do with their job performance.
In other words, I hire sales people who can sell, and I rarely know their views on other topics.
At one time, I used a web designer, who was a man trying to be a woman or vice versa, I could never figure it out. I suspect we had extremely differing views on lots of things, but, damn, he/she was an awesome web designer, and I counted on her/him.
-RW
"...who was a man trying to be a woman or vice versa, I could never figure it out. I suspect we had extremely differing views on lots of things, but, damn, he/she was an awesome web designer."
ReplyDeleteLMAO, and quintessential libertarian point of view. Bravo, sir.