"Fifty-four-year-old David Sabatini, a world-famous molecular biologist specializing in how cancer tumors develop.
Four years ago Sabatini was a tenured professor at MIT. For twenty years he'd been running a big lab at the nearby Whitehead Institute for biomedical research, supervising a team of 39 researchers.
Sabatini is a real Expert—a genius, according to colleagues. He made a key discovery in cancer research while he was still at medical school. Back in 2018 he was a good bet for a Nobel Prize.
So what's the latest news on David Sabatini? I'll let Suzy Weiss, writing on her sister Bari Weiss’ Substack site, tell you:
Today, Sabatini is unemployed and unemployable. No one wants to be associated with him. Those who do risk losing their jobs, publishing opportunities, friends, visas, and huge federal grants.
What precipitated such a downfall? The key here is in those lines penned by William Congreve three and a quarter centuries ago: Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd..
In April of 2018, Sabatini, separated from his wife and in divorce proceedings, started an affair with Kristin Knouse, below, a researcher at the Whitehead who was twenty years his junior—thirty to his fifty.
The affair chugged along for two years, although you get the impression from Suzy Weiss's account—and she spoke to everyone that was willing to meet her—that Sabatini was losing interest.
You can guess the rest. Knouse told the director of the Whitehead Institute, a woman named Ruth Lehmann, that Sabatini had harassed and abused her. Ms. Lehmann [Email her] hired in a big law firm to do an investigation. They did one, and in August last year delivered their findings in a 250-page report.
What did the report say? It said Sabatini had failed to disclose his consensual relationship with Knouse as per company policy. Also that "his behavior created a sexualized undercurrent in the lab.” Also that, notwithstanding the fact Sabatini didn't work with Knouse or supervise her and had no power to fire her, he had undue "influence" over her.
Those of Sabatini's colleagues willing to speak to Suzy Weiss said the report was all hogwash, although one went further and called it "deeply insane."
There is of course a money angle here. Labs like the Whitehead and research institutes like those at MIT live off multi-million-dollar grants from the National Institutes of Health (a federal government outfit) and big corporations and foundations, all of them locked in to Regime Ideology and terrified of the Thought Police . . . "
Full article: https://vdare.com/articles/john-derb...o_paragraph=24