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Physics prof. states fact at CERN - gets fired

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    #32
    markodaly
    Registered Users Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    JJayoo wrote: »

    Think it but don't say it

    Welcome to the modern day equivalent of heresy.


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    #33
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,354 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    goose2005 wrote: »
    In fairness if the guy is dumb enough to advocate heliocentrism a room full of priests in 1633 then he probably shouldn't be working on any big projects.

    Think it but don't say it

    Yes, but that was a fact.

    This is a bit more open to interpretation. As a result, maybe don't present your interpretation of the data as fact to an audience who will, rightly, feel patronised by it.


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    #34
    LLMMLL
    Registered Users Posts: 4,588 ✭✭✭LLMMLL


    Well if anyone can make sense of those slides they deserve a novel prize themselves.

    I did have to laugh when part of his evidence was himself losing out on a promotion. No axe to grind there.


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    #35
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 17,781 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Pero_Bueno wrote: »
    So where does it end ?
    CERN is supposed to be a scientific institution - for truth whatever the cost!
    This DENIAL of reality and facts!! we see it in Biology, there is a spectrum of chromosomes between XX and XY so we have a gender spectrum ???? WHAT???

    Is that coming to physics next ? or at least stats within the STEM subjects.

    I think 1984 should be mandatory reading for kids in school, this is where this is heading .

    Oh quit the hysteria and amateur dramatics

    He was sat in a room in a conf about women in physics basically telling them how male dominated it was and trying to validate that

    Considering the social and academic barriers women have had to face, it was more than a little stupid, especially considering the tone of the presentation

    Go to a similar event on racism and start discussing the "facts" of the genetic intelligence between races and see how long you keep your job for


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    #36
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,156 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Oh quit the hysteria and amateur dramatics

    He was sat in a room in a conf about women in physics basically telling them how male dominated it was and trying to validate that

    Considering the social and academic barriers women have had to face, it was more than a little stupid, especially considering the tone of the presentation

    Go to a similar event on racism and start discussing the "facts" of the genetic intelligence between races and see how long you keep your job for


    Even more stupid when that is not the talk you were invited to give and it is not your area of study.


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    #37
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Even more stupid when that is not the talk you were invited to give and it is not your area of study.

    He wasn’t invited, he asked if he could deliver a talk and then changed the topic of the talk he asked to give.

    For a smart man, it was kind of stupid.


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