Written evidence submitted by the Science Media Centre Trustees (COM0121)
The Trustees of the SMC dispute many of the details of Mr Waddell's account [see COM0118] of its role in the Tim Hunt affair. They do not agree with the assumptions he makes, and the conclusions he draws. In particular, they disagree with the suggestion that the scientific community was unaware of the involvement of the SMC. The SMC continues to enjoy extremely good relationships with the institutions caught up in the Tim Hunt affair, with mainstream news journalists and with the scientific community as a whole. There is no evidence that these relationships, or the SMC's reputation as a whole, have been affected by this episode.