Dawkins slams 'feeding frenzy' on scientist sacked for sexist comments

Outspoken academic Professor Richard Dawkins has claimed Tim Hunt was the victim of “a feeding frenzy of mob-rule self-righteousness” when he quit his job in the wake of controversial comments he made about women working in laboratories.

Prof. Dawkins said the reaction to the 72-year-old Nobel laureate’s comments had been “disproportionate” and gone through schadenfreude into “cruelty”, in a letter to the Times.