MCIS Inventor Chick Shoots/Kills 6

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  1. sandy Banned Banned

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    Dr. Amy Bishop, 40, the biology professor/geneticist who opened fire on fellow doctors/staff in AL, invented a Mobile Cell Incubation System touted as a replacement for the old-fashioned petri dish.
    She was refused tenure yesterday and then shot up fellow professors/doctors killing 3 and wounding 3 during a biology faculty meeting.
    Her invention was supposed to "change the way biological and medical research is conducted."

    http://topics.al.com/tag/UAH shooting/index.html
     
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  3. synthesizer-patel Sweep the leg Johnny! Valued Senior Member

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    Who says all biologists are nasty liberal atheists?

    Here's one at least behaving like a good christian conservative and killing a whole bunch of folks who stood in the way of her getting what she wanted

    George Bush would be proud
     
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  5. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    what does the shooting have to do with religion? :bugeye: Or Bush for that matter?

    I'm surprised because it was a woman. Most disgruntled employee shootings are male.
     
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  7. sandy Banned Banned

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  8. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    :facepalm:
     
  9. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    There's something I do not understand. Every year professors are chosen to be put on tenure so why didn't she just wait until next year to have another try at it. It seems there's more here than just the tenure as to why she killed those people.
     
  10. synthesizer-patel Sweep the leg Johnny! Valued Senior Member

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    Killing a whole bunch of people is ok if God tells you to do it ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml )

    she should plead the god defence and get off
     
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  12. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Usually when they refuse tenure, they expect you to leave within a year. Science is still very much an ole boys club, she was probably very frustrated by many setbacks.
     
  13. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    maybe she was denied tenure because they were seeing oddities about her. Oddities that caused her to shoot people. You can't fire people for being odd, but you can deny them tenure.
     
  14. synthesizer-patel Sweep the leg Johnny! Valued Senior Member

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    Just pointing out that one insane person can come up with a completely bonkers reason for killing people and get away with it.

    Another insane person does it and they somehow deserve different treatment
     
  15. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Oddities in a biology department; I think thats a requirement.

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  16. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    no you're not. You're trolling
     
  17. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    This seems like the most astute assessment of motive. It's stupid to superficially call her outright crazy without taking this into consideration.

    The only thing I'd question is whether her not her gender was actually associated with her not being given tenure unless there is an article somewhere that states this as a hard fact. It's certainly believable since there are past examples (IE - the scandals during Madame Currie's career were pretty unfair).
     
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    || Hi Patel, I see what you're saying but there is nothing in the OP that says she was an atheist or a theist. Sandy also isn't suggesting that this has anything to do with either.
    Unless you have information about this case that was not presented in the OP..
    Please stay on topic.
     
  19. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    anyone hear of the status of her husband? Was he arrested as well as a co-conspirator?
     
  20. sandy Banned Banned

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    I was going to say oddities in science, period.

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    I also think the second person being questioned is her husband. I'm sure cops want to know what/if anything he knew about her and her plans. It's just a strange thing for a woman to do that. Most shooters like that are disgruntled men.
     
  21. pjdude1219 The biscuit has risen Valued Senior Member

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    its probably because of the damage done. if you are repeatedly denied tenure it can basically destroy any attempts at getting a job as a professor as would being repeatedly fired fro mother jobs would hurt your chances at getting jobs in that field.
     
  22. sandy Banned Banned

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    I'm thinking there is much more to it. Just being denied tenure once should not set her off even if she had this great invention. I'm thinking there is a deep-seated character flaw other than her desire to shoot people. This chick was really fcked up. The cause and just how much, we may never know.
     
  23. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    Yup -- certainly normal if a man does it.
     

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