One of the greatest casualties of the culture wars is Prof. David Sabitini. What was, in any other time, a complex romantic interplay between grown adults has instead devolved into a public spat, facilitated by the DEI-HR industrial complex.

The costs
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to society are not trivial. David's research was pioneering in the field of cancer biology and he was Nobel Prize-bound. He ran a 40-person lab, and all that research was abruptly terminated, resulting in untold loss of medically significant knowledge.

Over his 24 years at the

Whitehead Institute at MIT (without a single complaint on his record), he minted numerous scientists, doctors and professors, many of them now female professionals grateful for his mentorship.

I ask you in all earnestness. Exactly who here, has done more to set back the status

of women in STEM? There seems to be an incongruence with arguing that as women, we demand to be treated equally as adults and yet consider that a 30 year old woman can possibly be groomed into a sexual relationship that morphed from something demonstrably consensual years later?

Those insisting this incident as another just cause in the #MeToo movement have to realize that this only serves to discredit women who are actually victimized when they come forward.

This case is just as ridiculous as the cancelation of Aziz Ansari over what essentially is

a case of buyer's remorse," something which nowadays can trigger the weaponization of HR to intervene, escalate and ruin peoples' lives.

It's one thing to go after a comic and cancel his work. It's another to go after a sitting professor whose lab

numerous people rely on, to cancel work that has a huge impact on everything from cell biology to immunology to cancer. Besides the injustice done to a man, his reputation and livelihood, this is a staggering loss for humanity.

I'm glad to see

the Spotlight Team at the @BostonGlobe, yes the same one that ran the investigation into the Catholic church sexual abuse scandal (which was turned into the award-winning Spotlight movie with Michael Keaton) do a deep dive on this, handling the story with nuance and care.

Long before the Globe published this piece though, it was @SnoozyWeiss at @TheFP who first published a detailed investigation into the fall of one of our generation's best scientists.

You can read it here: www.thefp.com/p/he-was-a-world-renowned-cancer-researcher?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2