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Nobel Scientist: Women Can’t Be In Lab Because They Cry Too Much
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June 12, 2015
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7:11Now PlayingA Nobel laureate scientist recently resigned due to his sexist remarks. British biochemist and self avowed chauvinist made the inappropriate comments at a conference of female scientist and journalists in Seoul South Korea. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show, and Becca Frucht (Popsugar) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
"Scientists should work in gender-segregated labs, according to a Nobel laureate, who said the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them and cry when criticised.
Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he has a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, said to the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul, South Korea: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls … three things happen when they are in the lab … You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticise them, they cry.”
Hunt said he was in favour of single-sex labs, adding that he didn’t want to “stand in the way of women”.
The 72-year-old, who won the 2001 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine, made the remarks when addressing a convention of senior female scientists and science journalists."
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