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Which he later clarified by saying he thought it was absolutely true.
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They fired him from his work because of a perceived sexist comment. He's a Nobel laureate - a scientist with decades worth of knowledge - and they boot him because somebody's feelings got hurt.
Don't feel bad, most people like him are only meaningfully productive in a narrow band around their 20's and 30's. Mostly what he'd have been doing now is making female students and co-workers uncomfortable, and cashing checks while jockeying with the bureaucracy.
The man is 72 and was awarded a nobel prize for his work in 2001.
Lets deal with one wrong statement at a time.
He was awarded the Nobel in 2001 for his work from the very early 80's. Want to start over from there or is your mind so made up that reality has no impact on the end result?
Why do I get the feeling that you're going to make me contemplate suicide?
I concede the point. Scientists older than 40 are not worth their salt, and we should be flippant about their professional value as of that milestone.
Anything else you have a problem with?
I don't know, you seem like someone who wants to make a point without the hard work of actually making your point. I do tend to drive people like that to rage, but I've never seen self-harm yet. Personally, I find that people who back what they say, and are not just pimping their opinions don't seem nearly as frustrated by me, so maybe it's just a matter of who I'm talking to.
I guess you want to pretend that being snarky is a substitute for support, but I don't. The notion that scientists, mathematicians, and other such researchers and theoreticians are often most productive in their 20's and 30's. You think I'm wrong, so you shared a bit of misinformation. Upon being corrected you accept that, but instead of trying to actually support yourself you just lash out.
I think you're actually believing that I'm bullshitting you, but you're not willing to check? I'd urge you to, my claim is exceptionally well accepted:
Older researchers publish more, but produce less which is real and valuable. Of course they are paid more, and more and more dominate the lives and careers of those beneath them. If you've never been in that world, you probably have no concept of how it really works.
I'd urge you to consider matters such as the most productive periods of the great physicists, for one example. It's not as though Einstein stopped being impressive as he aged, but his breakthroughs came in his younger days. Sadly in fact, as he became older he joined with some who rejected implications of quantum mechanics, a la the famous 'PDR' paper. It is axiomatic that power and wages grow with age in these fields, while what you produce may increase with volume it declines in quality.