Sounds like some people get easily offended at comments made a decade ago. Granted, the remarks were not the smartest to say in an interview: A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has been disinvited from speaking at…
Topic: Nobel Prize
British College Loses $1.5 Million Donation over Ousting of Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt
The controversy was that Hunt, a Nobel laureate, made a sexist joke and it offended the audience he was speaking to. Social media outraged pushed the University College London to pressure Hunt to resign, even…
Politically Correct Mob Hounds Nobel Prize Winner to Resign
Tim Hunt, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology in 2001, was forced to resign after making a remark about women in STEM. The mob “wins,” but we all lose.