Ghomeshi withdraws lawsuit

[james_davis_nicoll]

A $55-million lawsuit launched by Jian Ghomeshi against the CBC last month, after he was fired as host of the radio arts, culture and entertainment program Q, is being withdrawn.

CBC’s Ioanna Roumeliotis reports that Ghomeshi is to pay $18,000 in legal costs incurred by the CBC.

Comments

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Dawkins is an appalling arse, but I think he's still got a ways to go before he reaches Ghomeshi levels.

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

Dawkins is having the usual old-and-eminent-but-wrong problem; exemplary career, but you don't die soon enough to avoid realizing you're going to be a footnote despite your strong early contributions to your field and your really high citation index, because it turns out you didn't get it right.

This is really common; it's rare and involves a lot of luck to be someone whose contribution goes on to be foundational to science. It's unfortunate that the common response to it seems to involve becoming deeply obnoxious.

Mary Jane West-Eberhard's "Developmental Plasticity and Evolution" presents a view more likely to be correct than Dawkins' "selfish gene" model, in large part because genes aren't simple on-off switches, Fra Mendel's peas notwithstanding. It's somewhat handicapped by being more complex, and much chewier prose; Dawkins is a brilliant essayist. So Dawkins is still ahead in the popular press, but the professional side of things, he almost can't avoid knowing he didn't get it right.

This appears to rot his socks really hard.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am speaking only of his digging.