Sexist scientists are the real lab rats

14 June 2015 - 02:00
By Anjana Ahuja

Comments about women from a Nobel laureate prove academics need to get out more. Holes don't dig themselves. This universal law of engineering must be preoccupying the otherwise brilliant mind of distinguished British scientist Sir Tim Hunt as he considers the address he gave to a conference of science journalists in South Korea this week.

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