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As Australia’s top neuroscientist Matthew Kiernan sacks people, questions arise: are his drawings still science or already art?
Category: Bullying and harassment
Dirty Old Men
Does being a science genius entitle you to sexual harassment, as academic authorities in Yale and elsewhere insist? Let’s look at papers by Michael Simons, Joseph Schlessinger and Arnold Levine.
Bullies and Harassers of Cologne
“the professor insults her doctoral students, calling them “stupid”, “useless” or “retarded”, for example. She is said to sometimes require her employees to work more than 80 hours a week. The report speaks of a “quasi-feudal relationship of dependence” and a “climate of fear” at the institute in question.”
Who are you, Matthew Stephenson?
“Sense of wasted potential. Stephenson has energy, and a degree of low rat cunning that could accomplish something, if only steered in the right direction.” – Smut Clyde
The Paul Scherrer Rules
“I will ultimately decide on the names that will qualify for co-authorship” – Dr med Damien Weber
The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Bullying
“If, within the aforementioned 15 days, you have not proceeded to make the retraction I am requesting, this corporation will consider itself free to take any legal actions necessary under the law.” – Jesus Maria Sanz Serna, President
Svante Pääbo: Nobel Disease before Nobel Prize
Svante Pääbo, the father of paleogenomics, went funny before his Nobel Prize.
Akbar Sayeed affair: bullying kills
How a student’s suicide finally brought down an abusive narcissistic psychopath, after two decades.
David Argyle – brave, resilient and progressive
“I have worked at several universities in my career, and never have I encountered the degree of bullying, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination that I have here. The atmosphere is utterly toxic, and everyone is scared to say anything in case it is heard and reported to [David Argyle] or [Richard Mellanby]. It is like working with the East German Stasi.” – Dr Andrew Brown, deceased
The Sex Privileges of mTORman David Sabatini
“The Plaintiff is Professor Sabatini […] the self-described powerful senior scientist, who had demanded sex of her when she was a graduate student ending her studies and about to start a fellowship at the Whitehead, in a program Sabatini would direct. […] And it is the man who had made it clear – throughout her training and employment with the Whitehead – that he would ruin anyone who dared to speak against him.”
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