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"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." and when you criticise them they cry.... And when Tim Hunt is critised he sulks and resigns...
08:48 Thu 11th Jun 2015
and the bonus is ... ?
Svejk - // Political Correctness is a Marxist construct designed for the sole reason of stifling debate, deciding the parameters of debate.//
the only thing that is in contention is cause and effect
otherwise a skeleton argument would go as follows
a) PC exists ( an existential assumption I only put in coz Jimi is a mathematician )
b ) much loved by the left and abhorred by the right - so "marxist construct" is over egging the pudding but is still defensible - why not use instead " UKIP bugaboo ? "
c) sole purpose - no I think it has other purposes
d) stifling debate - yup certainly doesnt free up debate to exciting free thinkers
e) deciding the parameters - yup since they are there ( see (a)), they have to be taken into account at every juncture and so could be looked on as a strong controlling factor. ergo
[ PS as an exercise the reader is left to fill out further details in the argument ]
Svejk - // Political Correctness is a Marxist construct designed for the sole reason of stifling debate, deciding the parameters of debate.//
the only thing that is in contention is cause and effect
otherwise a skeleton argument would go as follows
a) PC exists ( an existential assumption I only put in coz Jimi is a mathematician )
b ) much loved by the left and abhorred by the right - so "marxist construct" is over egging the pudding but is still defensible - why not use instead " UKIP bugaboo ? "
c) sole purpose - no I think it has other purposes
d) stifling debate - yup certainly doesnt free up debate to exciting free thinkers
e) deciding the parameters - yup since they are there ( see (a)), they have to be taken into account at every juncture and so could be looked on as a strong controlling factor. ergo
[ PS as an exercise the reader is left to fill out further details in the argument ]
// //Who decides what is, or more importantly, what isn't correct? //
I asked that on page 1. //
There is this stuff called Law for a start.
No I dont want to discuss interminably whether he was fired as a result of lawful process - he had an honorary contract at the Lab,
that is, in this context, a fancy title and possible lab space ( but possibly not) and no payment and no agreed budget. It is NOT a contract and so the uni can terminate it at will. It would have been done by the fella who granted the hon professorship - the usual professor or head of dept. He Sir Tim would have been invited to resign the post before getting terminated.
[ We had one at work and he had no idea how quickly he could be run out of the place when he started playing up - misunderstood the nature of an honorary contract which paradoxically is NOT a contract with an honorarium ( = pay ) ] cut his throat and threw him down the steps of the front building. Bof ! that was the end of it.
I asked that on page 1. //
There is this stuff called Law for a start.
No I dont want to discuss interminably whether he was fired as a result of lawful process - he had an honorary contract at the Lab,
that is, in this context, a fancy title and possible lab space ( but possibly not) and no payment and no agreed budget. It is NOT a contract and so the uni can terminate it at will. It would have been done by the fella who granted the hon professorship - the usual professor or head of dept. He Sir Tim would have been invited to resign the post before getting terminated.
[ We had one at work and he had no idea how quickly he could be run out of the place when he started playing up - misunderstood the nature of an honorary contract which paradoxically is NOT a contract with an honorarium ( = pay ) ] cut his throat and threw him down the steps of the front building. Bof ! that was the end of it.
