David Sabatini is someone who it was believed could one day win a Nobel Prize for medicine.

Six months after their relationship started Sabatini’s employer announced a new policy that the head of any lab could not have a sexual relationship with a coworker.

Sabatini didn’t go to his superiors to report the relationship because by that time it was already cooling off a bit.

He had started a relationship with a non-coworker in Germany.

In January 2020 she texted, in part: “I get anxious when I don’t hear back from you and then I see you post stuff on Twitter and it provides an admittedly small and silly but still another bit of evidence to this growing feeling that you don’t care about me in the way that I care about you.” He wrote back: “I am sorry but you are being crazy.” In another text, Knouse admitted feeling “stung.” She added: “I think it’s worth thinking about whether you want someone who matches your passion, intellect, and ambition.” He wrote back: “I have to explore this.”.

But months later it seemed that Knouse had decided she was a victim.

In October 2020, Knouse texted her friends that she was “unpack[ing] a ton of suppressed abuse and trauma from an obvious local source”—an apparent reference to Sabatini.

What had David Sabatini been found guilty of that merited this kind of punishment.

On top of that, the report found that Sabatini, in his day-to-day administration of the lab, violated the Whitehead’s Anti-Harassment Policy, since his “behavior created a sexualized undercurrent in the lab.” Sabatini’s relationship with Knouse exacerbated things, given his “indirect influence” over her, which violated the Anti-Harassment Policy and ran afoul of the “spirit” if not the letter of another of the institute’s policies….

“While we have not found any evidence that Sabatini discriminates against or fails to support females in his lab, we find that Sabatini’s propensity to praise or gravitate toward those in the lab that mirror his desired personality traits, scientific success, or view of ‘science above all else,’ creates additional obstacles for female lab members,” the report concluded.

None of them would speak on the record because defending Sabatini in public could ruin their careers but they told Weiss the report got Sabatini wrong.

Sabatini has filed a lawsuit against Knouse and she has counter-sued, accusing him of “grooming.”.

Six months after he was fired a friend at NYU medical school called Sabatini to see how he was doing.

Yesterday, Michelle Goldberg wrote a column for the NY Times titled “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo.” The gist of it is that Amber Heard is a victim of both Johnny Depp and a misogynist culture:.

After watching the trial, it is hard not to think of Amber as the primary aggressor of the toxicity in the relationship.

Saying it “defies logic” to believe a larger man with more resources to be more of a victim than the aggressor likely one of the core reasons Amber felt so confident to publish many exaggerations and blurred storylines… because she assumed we wouldn’t believe otherwise.

It seems that any accusation by any woman today is treated as a symbol of MeToo and the court of the liberal public opinion skews towards convicting the man before any evidence is heard.