Suzy Weiss

Neeraja Deshpande @neerajadeshp

As I exited my video call with @DMSabatini, whom I interviewed for @PirateWires via @IWF, all I could think was: here is a scientist who has made some of the biggest breakthroughs of our age—a man who is exceptional, definitionally abnormal in the best sense of the word; here he is, begging for “normal.” The people who put him in such a position—including Kristin Knouse, his ex who was found by a jury to have defamed him by falsely calling him a “rapist”—remain employed by the Whitehead Institute. Full piece in the replies.

Suzy Weiss @SnoozyWeiss

When I first met David, a world-class molecular biologist whose name was being floated for the Nobel Prize, he was collecting unemployment. As of last week, he's been cleared by of wrongdoing and awarded $6,000,000 in damages. Read my story about him:

Niall Ferguson @nfergus

The reputational destruction of Prof. David Sabatini was one of the worst excesses of the Great Awokening / Me-Too era. @BillAckman acted bravely in offering him support when the entire academic establishment cancelled him. Without his efforts, the complete absence of due process in his treatment by @MIT might never have come to light. The question I am left with: Will those whose misconduct has finally been exposed pay anything like the price they imposed on Sabatini? Will they be fired? Will their reputations be destroyed? They deserve it. He did not.

The Free Press @TheFP

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Dick Lucas 🇺🇸 @dickclucas

Justice is patient. Years after the headlines and the pile-on almost ended @DMSabatini’s career, long after the protesters forgot his name, a jury has spoken: every harassment claim against him rejected, and $6 million owed to him for defamation. Total vindication.