We Need More Of This -- Professorial Solidarity Against Victim Feminism And Craven University Administrators
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Hunt was forced out in what writer and broadcaster Roger Dimbleby rightly refers to as a "disgraceful" rush to judgment.

Admirably, Dimbleby quit his honorary fellowship at UCL to protest what was done to Hunt.

James Meikle reports at The Guardian:

Dimbleby said: "The college has a long and honourable tradition of defending free speech, however objectionable it may be. Sir Tim made a very poor joke and it quite rightly backfired. He then apologised for that," he told the Times.

...[Hunt] admitted he had made an "idiotic joke" during a conference in Seoul, South Korea, but insisted his remarks had not been fully reported and that he had the support of hundreds of female scientists.

Meanwhile, his accuser, Connie St. Louis's account does not match that of others who were there.

In fact St. Louis's main accomplishment seems to be lying about her accomplishments. In that, seems to fit the profile I just wrote about regarding women who use the power of "J'accuse!" to gain unearned power over men:

What kind of woman takes advantage of the power of the "J'accuse!"? Not a woman of power and position. Not a woman who is going places. A woman who has failed to make much of herself or her life. A woman who doesn't have the grades or the chops or who hasn't done the work.

But let's get back to what Dimbleby did, standing up in solidarity with Hunt. No, most professors can't afford to support a colleague by leaving their position. But they can band together and speak up.

Regarding banding together against the mob, I recently spoke at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference, in a session with the tireless and courageous medical bioethicist Alice Dreger. My talk was on the "behavioral immune system" and how scientists can protect themselves when they are attacked by ideologues -- attacked not because their science is bad but because they are an easy target (like Asperger'sy Bora Zivkovic was) or the ideologues simply don't like their findings.

A bit from my talk relates in this case:

The problem is, when you're first attacked, the fight looks terribly one-sided. They're a group and they're all coming after you. It's scary.

The thing is, you have a group, too. This room is a group. We see ourselves that way -- as a group in physical terms -- when we come together for a conference or other event. But we need to identify as a group beyond our physical grouping -- identify as science people, evolutionary science people -- and as a collective for defending science, evolutionary science, and evolutionary scientists. The way we do that is by banding together to defend fellow scientists when they are attacked by ideologues.

The good news is, research by Henri Tajfel and others finds that it takes very little for people to do that -- to see one another as teammates; we just have to see the slightest thing that allows us to identify with the others. (As I explain in "Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck") social psychologists David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdesolo found that even seeing somebody wearing the same color wristband as you allows you to see them as on your "team"; as "one of us." So here's my effort at priming you in that direction -- that pink paper that each of you got. It contains some tips from me but it's something else, too. It's a mark of being part of the Evolutionary Sciencepeople Group. Use this to see one another as fellow group members so you can take a more Three Musketeers/all for one and one for all approach when one of us under attack.

Dimbleby took a first step but others need to start standing up for their fellow researchers who have the victim feminist, social "justice" Twittermob go after them.

Standing up as a group against the mob is how craven administrators at universities see that the mob's target is not so easily and seamlessly knocked off the wall.

And this, not any desire for fairness or justice or support of the free speech and inquiry that is supposed one of the foundations of a university, is what keeps the administrators from indulging in the quick witch burnings they prefer of anybody the mob points their fingers at.

UPDATE, via @DeanEsmay: More solidarity.