{"id":812,"date":"2015-08-01T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/?p=812"},"modified":"2015-08-02T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T14:57:58","slug":"connie-st-louis-delusional-or-dishonest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/2015\/08\/01\/connie-st-louis-delusional-or-dishonest\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie St Louis: Delusional or Dishonest?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"conniestlouis2\"<\/a>Well, the dust has settled, and the internet\u2019s fickle attention has shifted away from June\u2019s flavour-of-the-month hot news item: the shaming of Nobel-laureate\u00a0scientist Sir Tim Hunt.\u00a0 But along the way, an actual audio clip surfaced of the tail end of Hunt\u2019s infamous toast in Seoul\u2014an audio clip<\/a> that made it clear he was telling the truth all along about speaking in jest and in warm support of women in science, that most of his audience took his remarks in exactly that spirit, and that his chief accuser, Connie St Louis, told some porkies on tv about a certain \u201cdeathly silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The situation now?\u00a0 Sir Tim, despite having been abundantly exonerated, is still in the doghouse.\u00a0 UCL declined to reinstate him in his honorary position, in as mealy-mouthed a press release<\/a> as I have ever seen.\u00a0 His invitation to a conference in Italy was withdrawn<\/a>, for fear of feminist activists disrupting the proceedings.\u00a0 And no apology or even acknowledgement of the facts was forthcoming from any of the bloggers, journalists, or twitterheads who unfairly maligned him, particularly including Connie St Louis.<\/p>\n

Mind you, St Louis was dealing with problems of her own, in the wake of a thoroughly damning deconstruction<\/a> of her online\u00a0 curriculum vitae.\u00a0 Borderline dishonest on the one hand, poorly written and abysmally edited on the other\u2014the sort of incompetence that is appalling in a professional writer who is supposed to be teaching younger people how to write.\u00a0 Her institution stood by her stoutly, and declared that they would help her bring her CV up to date\u2014a process which apparently required\u00a0a full calendar month. (One wonders whether they hoped her critics would forget all about it if they waited long enough.)<\/p>\n

So the new sanitized version<\/a> went up a few days ago, with some interesting additions, and some fascinating omissions.\u00a0 There are a few items one could get petty about\u2014she claims a book under her publications, without making clear that the \u201cbook\u201d in question is a 77-page pdf of conference papers<\/a> published online, which she edited but did not write.\u00a0 She does specify where she received her degree, though not the year\u2014almost as if she wants to downplay the fact that the institution was a polytechnic at the time.\u00a0 She claims to have won an award for a certain radio program, though she is not named as the recipient<\/a>\u2014but fair enough, she did present the show, and the show did win an award.\u00a0 I would imagine that Ms St Louis\u2019 little helpers made sure everything appearing in the shiny new CV had at least some basis in fact.<\/p>\n

No, it is the omissions that are more interesting. \u00a0No mention this time of doing piles of writing for various national papers.\u00a0 No self-description as a scientist. No mention of membership in the Royal Institution. No mention of the fifty thousand quid awarded to her ten years ago, to do some writing that never got done.\u00a0 No taking credit for the Foundling Museum\u2019s \u00a0350,000-pound grant.\u00a0 But most glaring of all…<\/p>\n

…no mention of the Tim Hunt controversy.\u00a0 Her BBC interview<\/a> does not appear on\u00a0the (very short)\u00a0list of her media appearances.\u00a0 Her Guardian article<\/a> on the subject does not appear on the (very short) list of her press\/online articles.\u00a0 Could this be because nearly every word she uttered in the BBC interview, and nearly every word she wrote in the Guardian article, were later shown to be egregiously inaccurate, biased, and on the edge of libellous? \u00a0Indeed, that level of sheer wrongness suggests that she was either (a) lying, or (b) blinded and deafened to the point of delusion by her ideological SJW agenda.\u00a0 Neither interpretation reflects well on St Louis\u2019 competence or integrity as a journalist\u2014and it does make one a little anxious about\u00a0what she is teaching her hapless students.<\/p>\n

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h\/t to Nick for date correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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