"the false picture of Hunt as a misogynist"
September 1, 2015 10:32 AM   Subscribe

The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt
The Timothy Hunt affair represents more than the gratuitous eye-blink ruination of a great man’s reputation and career. It demonstrates the danger of the extraordinary, almost worshipful deference that academia, government institutions, and above all the mainstream media now accord to social media... Fortunately, the story did not end on June 10. In the weeks following the initial assault, some of Hunt’s most ardent persecutors have been exposed as liars or blinkered ideologues, abetted by cynical hacks and academic rivals on a quest to bring him down or use him as grist to a political mill. posted by andoatnp (0 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: We already had a long fighty thread about this with defenses of Hunt and counterargument mixed in; we don't need another unless there's some truly extraordinary thing happening. -- LobsterMitten



 

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