Open mouth, insert foot

Alissa Greenberg has an article in Time about a smart guy talking dumb:

Renowned scientist and Nobel Prize-winner Tim Hunt (photo) told a room full of high-ranking scientists and science journalists recently that the trouble with “girls” working in science is that “three things happen when they are in the lab… You fall in love with them, they fall in love with you and when you criticize them, they cry.”
Hunt, who was speaking at the World Conference of Science Journalists in the South Korean capital of Seoul, went on to say that scientists should work in gender-segregated labs, adding that he hoped not “to stand in the way of women,” the Guardian reports.
Hunt, 72, won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for his work on protein molecules and their role in cell division. He was knighted in 2006.
The Royal Society, of which Hunt is a fellow, quickly tweeted a message distancing itself from Hunt’s remarks, writing that the comments “don’t reflect our views” and later adding “Science needs women.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Twitter responded with outrage. Sabine Dittrich, an infectious-disease researcher based in Laos, wrote:
#TimHunt  I assume you got your ass kicked by a brilliant female colleague! 

Rico says that winning a Nobel Prize doesn't make you smart about everything... (And people with stupid ideas should keep their mouths shut.)