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Scientist Loses Award After Acceptance Presentation Full of Racy Photos
- everdev 8y ago> I did not choose the photos my female students chose the photos and helped me set up the talk... Henry Mushinsky apparently has some kind of vendetta for me. He had no right to enter into my slide presentation and try to destroy me, if he thought he had the right to censure my slides why didn’t he just delete them. It is kind of odd that the photos were censored by someone else but were still considered inappropriate after being censored.
- fifnir 8y agoI can only find a re-hash/copy-pasta of the story on google and the slides are nowhere to be seen. Isn't it reasonable to expect from journalists to try and get the pertinent thing of this story rather than repeating a "they said/ he said" story ? Either the guy is a creep or they massively overreacted , or somewhere in the middle, but how are we to make an informed opinion of we can't see the actual thing ?
- everdev 8y agoI hear you, but I think the other side of the country is if it really was bad we don't want exploitive photos being widely distributed especially without the consent of the subjects in the photos. But, if they're not that bad I'd imagine the scientist or the women in the photos would leak them. At the very least it would be good to hear the reaction from the women in the photo themselves rather than the judgements of people who weren't there when the photos were taken.
- hndamien 8y agohttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/turtle-researcher-women-photos-presentation-richard-vogt-a8450726.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/turtle-res...
- hndamien 8y agoSome actual slides - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5955327/Turtle-researchers-award-rescinded-photos-scantily-clad-female-students.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5955327/Turtle-resea...
- 1996 8y agoDo we think private behavior of scientists impact the quality of their work, or do we just want to punish them to make them comform to society norms? Like even if you break the Enigma in WW2. Morality is back to levels not seen since Victorianism.
- everdev 8y agoI think it's about suggestive pictures of female students while conducting research for the scientist, so I think people are more worried about him exploiting young adults on the job rather than in his personal life.
- jonhendry18 8y agoThe private behavior of scientists may negatively effect the quality of other scientists' work. That said, I kind of do suspect that there will at some point be a "Footloose" situation except with dancing banned by people of the far left instead of a conservative preacher.
- yontherubicon 8y agoI'm guessing he showed a picture or two of his students all posing in the field with a couple turtles, smiling with their find. And, of course, prudish harridans must have gotten mad at him showing girls in swimsuits and thrown a tantrum.