Friends, we live in an unforgiving age.

In 2015, a British scientist, Sir Tim Hunt,

a Nobel Prize winning scientist, no less,

made his visit to South Korea.

The only thing is in 2015, they haven't taught the South Koreans or so

shalom. On his visit four years ago he made in the course of his speech a bad

joke about women in laboratories. It was a silly joke and he admitted it and it

fell flat. However one person tweeted the joke and it went round the world and

became viral. And thereafter, he began the target of an online shaming campaign, the end of

which was he was forced to resign his position at University College London, forced to resign

his permission in the Royal Society, forced to resign his position in the European

Research Council, and turned into a pariah, despite the fact that he obviously was only making

a joke, immediately afterwards in his talk said science needs women, despite the fact that

his wife is a distinguished scientist, despite the fact that his wife is a distinguished scientist, despite

the fact that he apologized time and time again, despite the fact that he was defended

by fellow scientists from Brian Cox all the way to His Holiness Richard Dawkins, the truth

is they were telling the world it was only a joke.

And yet he was condemned.

Without trial, without consideration of the evidence, without due process, without appeal, without mercy, without regard to his lifetime of service to science, without regard to the simple fact that he was a human being and human beings make mistakes.

ours is an unforgiving age.

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist at the University of Toronto.

He is probably the most followed public intellectual in the world

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