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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: makattak on June 30, 2015, 04:28:40 PM
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... on the word of a fabulist.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3141158/A-flawed-accuser-Investigation-academic-hounded-Nobel-Prize-winning-scientist-job-reveals-troubling-questions-testimony.html
Gee, ginning up the outrage machine on the word of one unknown.
Worse is the University that caved to the pressure. What an evil world we live in.
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An amazing article by the Daily Mail. Nothing can put back together the life of Dr. Hunt, however.
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Its become quite obvious that politics and political correctness is more important to some people than science.
FWIW, from my experience working in a lab in different settings over 20 years, Dr Hunt isn't that far off the mark with his comments.
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Regardless of the accuracy of the comments, the veracity of the "whistleblower" is such that anything she says or writes must be thoroughly fact-checked. Among the other stuff, how can UCL even put someone on staff without knowing where their degree(s) come from?
Sadly, the libel laws in (f)GB are so different from those over here that most folks will be dumbfounded at why Sir Tim may not even be able to sue her - see Fair Comment at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
stay safe.
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"Fabulist" is far too benign a descriptor, mak. I'm struggling to find a term to convey my disgust for this repugnant, self-indulgent, one-dimensional caricature of a person, the sum of whose life achievement couldn't touch that of one of Sir Tim Hunt's toenails.
She is worthy of a job serving as a passenger dummy for individuals wishing to use HOV lanes, provided she refrains from any attempt at communication.
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Sadly, the libel laws in (f)GB are so different from those over here that most folks will be dumbfounded at why Sir Tim may not even be able to sue her - see Fair Comment at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
stay safe.
I think you've got it exactly backwards. It's far easier to successfully sue for defamation in Britain than it is in the US. Britain had a reputation as a defamation plaintiff's paradise until recently; they enacted some reforms in 2013 that make it a bit more difficult, but I don't think they've instituted protections that are anywhere near as strong as those we have in the US.