Tim Hunt the victim of self-righteous feeding frenzy, says Richard Dawkins

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7. Hunt is from an era when science was a boys' club.

I can tell you from first-hand experience that that's changing quickly in this day and age, especially in biology. Half of the graduate students at the lab I post-docced in were female. Half of our department is female and they outrank the males. The chair of our department is female. Most of my students are female, and more that half of my A-students were female. The most gifted students I've taught were about 50-50 male-female.