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>earned scholarship to Harvard despite growing up in an all black, poverty stricken neighborhood where less than 40% of students finish high school
>marries Korean qt3.14 former classmate days after graduating from Harvard
>earned Ph.D. from Berkeley in 3.5 years and is immediately given a position at the university afterwards
>conducts research showing the most used herbicide in America is dangerous to wildlife
>most powerful agribusiness corporation on Earth tries to discredit him, his work, and even goes after his wife for over a decade
>other scientists, motivated by his work, conduct research which showed the herbicide could cause birth defects in humans
>his research was also the leading cause of said corporation losing a $105 million class action lawsuit

How can one scientist be so based?

>> No.6346829

>Tyrone

>> No.6346835

Good for him.

>> No.6346836

Other scientists try and try, but nobody gets the results he does. This proves he is the best of the best!

>> No.6346837

>>6346809
they just let him because of black empowerment.

>> No.6346846

>>6346809
From the pic of his jacket, I take it he is now researching scarecrow technology?

>> No.6346857

>>6346809

why does his head....look so tiny?

>> No.6346872 [DELETED] 

>>6346809
>get free ticket to harvard for being black and a poverty stricken neighborhood whilst still retaining a 3 digit IQ
>not going to get a job anywhere else, sent to Berkeley to fill their quota
>do some science in his spare time in a feeble attempt to stave off the nagging self-doubt
>forget to control for temperature and how it affects whether amphibians develop as male or female
>his experiments are not reproducible and fail peer review
>whip up mass hysteria to cover up his error and get attention
>pretend to be a crusader against evil corporations
>really just damaging a company at the forefront of science and trying to develop alternative safer herbicides
>probably his way of getting back at all the real scientists doing real work
>a world he has glorified all his life but which he will never truly be a part of

>> No.6346873

>>6346872
GTFO Monsanto

>> No.6346876

>>6346872
>shilling for dupont
do the world a favor and either

a) kill yourself
b) continue your meaningless, non-influential existence

>> No.6346875

>>6346809 (OP)
>get free ticket to harvard for being black and from a poverty stricken neighborhood whilst still retaining a 3 digit IQ
>not going to get a job anywhere else, sent to Berkeley to fill their quota
>do some science in his spare time in a feeble attempt to stave off the nagging self-doubt
>forget to control for temperature and how it affects whether amphibians develop as male or female
>his experiments are not reproducible and fail peer review
>whip up mass hysteria to cover up his error and get attention
>pretend to be a crusader against evil corporations
>really just damaging a company at the forefront of science and trying to develop alternative safer herbicides
>probably his way of getting back at all the real scientists doing real work
>a world he has glorified all his life but which he will never truly be a part of

>> No.6346882

>>6346873
>>6346876
>shilling for big organo
>2014

>> No.6346890

Because affirmative action. Still, doesn't mean he didn't do well.

>> No.6346900

Do people on /sci/ REALLY believe that every black student admitted to a top notch institute(other than Caltech obviously) is because of affirmative action?

>> No.6346903

>>6346900
Only white men can get into college on merit

>> No.6346908

>>6346873
>>6346876
lol wut, the company, the company that makes it is actually syngeta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Hayes

>His work has been contested by Syngenta, the U.S. manufacturer of atrazine, and was used as the basis for the settlement of a multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit against them.

>i hate you dad!!!
*5 years later*
>i hate big evil corporations now! am i edgy yet?
lel

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6346910

>>6346900
I'm not mad or hate anyone, I have come to peace with it. It is just the world we live in.

Mob rule is preferable to tyranny.

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6346942

>be manic pacifist
>there is a war going on in Vietnam
>"be right back, I'm going to Asia and hold lectures on algebraic geometry in cities which are being bombed. follow me if you're interested."
How can one mathematician be so badass?

>> No.6347040

>>6346910
>Mob rule is preferable to tyranny.
wut???

get to /pol/ where they can fix that

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6347051

A Valuable Reputation

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all

After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him.

"The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia," he liked to say, "is to keep careful track of your persecutors."

"Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased and, thus, truth cannot be altered by money. Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise."

One of his first graduate students, Nigel Noriega:
"A good scientist spends his whole career questioning his own facts. One of the most dangerous things you can do is believe."