Faculty Lounge NYU Disinvites Nobel Prize Winning Scientists for Decade-Old Remarks Spencer Irvine September 18, 2016 Sounds like some people get easily offended at comments made a decade ago. Granted, the remarks were not the smartest…
Faculty Lounge British College Loses $1.5 Million Donation over Ousting of Nobel Prize Winner Tim Hunt Spencer Irvine July 28, 2015 The controversy was that Hunt, a Nobel laureate, made a sexist joke and it offended the audience he was speaking…
Faculty Lounge Politically Correct Mob Hounds Nobel Prize Winner to Resign Spencer Irvine June 16, 2015 Tim Hunt, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology in 2001, was forced to resign after making a remark about…