Scientist sparks row with 鈥榣ab girls鈥 view
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A Nobel Prize-winning British scientist apologized yesterday for saying the 鈥渢rouble with girls鈥 working in laboratories is that it leads to romantic entanglements and harms science.
But Tim Hunt stood by his assertion that mixed-gender labs are 鈥渄isruptive鈥.
Hunt, 72, made the comments at the World Conference of Science Journalists in South Korea, according to audience members.
Connie St Louis of London鈥檚 City University tweeted that Hunt said when women work alongside men in labs, 鈥測ou fall in love with them, they fall in love with you, and when you criticize them, they cry鈥.
Hunt, a biochemist who was joint recipient of the 2001 Nobel for physiology or medicine, said he was just trying to be humorous. He told BBC radio yesterday that he was 鈥渞eally, really sorry I caused any offense鈥.
Then he added: 鈥淚 did mean the part about having trouble with girls. ... I have fallen in love with people in the lab and people in the lab have fallen in love with me and it鈥檚 very disruptive to the science.鈥
Jennifer Rohn, a cell biologist at University College London, said the comments may have been meant as a joke 鈥渂ut that鈥檚 no excuse鈥.
She said such comments from a leading scientist 鈥渁re going to be taken to heart by some young female scientists. And I think that is a real shame, because we still have a very long way to go to get equality in the sciences鈥.
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