https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7vyyv/in-secret-meeting-nyu-defends-potential-hiring-of-researcher-accused-of-sexual-misconduct

In recent days, NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine has been in an uproar over the potential hiring of cancer biologist David Sabatini, who left three other institutions—MIT, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute—over claims of sexual misconduct against him. On Thursday, about 200 faculty and students staged a walkout over Sabatini’s potential hiring, while faculty members signed a letter of protest. Also on Thursday, in a lengthy Zoom town hall with some research faculty and trainees at the medical school, senior administrators defended the hiring process they’re currently engaged in, and strongly implied that claims of sexual misconduct against Sabatini were untrue.

Audio of the meeting, which was provided to Motherboard and other news outlets, shows senior leadership at the medical school dismissing the controversy around Sabatini as a function of an incomplete investigation and social media-driven cancel culture, the latter of which dean and CEO Robert Grossman also denounced in a bizarre school-wide email earlier this month.