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> It's not a witch hunt if it actually happened It can be. Take the case of Nobel prize winning scientist Tim Hunt who was excoriated online and off and later

by imron 9y ago

> It's not a witch hunt if it actually happened It can be. Take the case of Nobel prize winning scientist Tim Hunt who was excoriated online and off and later resigned for comments he in a speech made about woman in science. Those comments actually happened, but later a full transcript of his speech revealed them to be just a rather poor joke amid comments praising women in science, and were not representative of his actual views and actions over the course of his career. Then there was the Rosetta mission scientist who caught flak for wearing a risqué tshirt, which actually happened, but the outcry was far disproportionate to the crime especially as it was later revealed that the shirt was given to him in the first place by a female friend. So it is possible for witch hunts to occur even for things that 'actually happened'

zzalpha 9y ago
You're arguing a technicality regarding one pithy sentence in my comment. Caldbeck sexually harassed women. Period. He confessed to it. He's now being sued for it. This is not, in any way, shape, or form, anything remotely resembling a "witch hunt". It's literally the opposite of that, in that the person being accused of the crime is guilty of said crime.
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- imron 9y ago
  > You're arguing a technicality regarding one pithy sentence in my comment. You're right. My comment was nothing about the case involving Caldbeck, in fact, my entire point was to call out that pithy comment because I don't think it's something that is generally true (even if it might be true in this case).