The Message Behind Nobel Prize Winning Biologist Tim Hunt’s Sexist Rant—Science is Above the Law
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The Message Behind Nobel Prize Winning Biologist Tim Hunt’s Sexist Rant—Science is Above the Law

04 Jul The Message Behind Nobel Prize Winning Biologist Tim Hunt’s Sexist Rant—Science is Above the Law

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It’s been about a month since Nobel prize winning biochemist Tim Hunt’s comments on “girls” in science, and the furor hasn’t stopped yet. But along with his sexism is dangerous scientism—“Science is about nothing but getting at the truth and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.” Read my Psychology Today column, “Tim Hunt, Sexism and the Cult of Science” for my response.

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