Leading Cancer Researcher’s Career Ends Because of Consensual Relationship (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_400)
The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad
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🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody this is God Sad I wasn't planning on doing a sad truth today. I've got a |
| 0:04.6 | million things to do but this morning I woke up saw a an article on sub-stack written |
| 0:11.0 | by Susie Weiss I'm guessing that this is the sister of Barry Weiss. It's on Barry Weiss's |
| 0:17.2 | sub-stack platform. I got pissed off reading it, I weighed in on social social media but I thought that I would post this on |
| 0:26.8 | My show because it really |
| 0:30.9 | captures where we've arrived as a society. |
| 0:33.8 | So here we go. |
| 0:35.4 | So the title of the article is he was a world-renowned cancer researcher. |
| 0:39.9 | Now he's collecting unemployment. |
| 0:41.7 | Behind the fall of David Sabatini, one of the greatest scientists of his generation. |
| 0:46.0 | In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist. |
| 0:51.0 | He was a tenured professor at MIT. He ran a major lab at the White House Whitehead |
| 0:55.1 | Institute overseeing a team of 39 researchers, postdocs, and technicians. Their job was to |
| 1:01.5 | disentangle the mystery of the MTOR signaling pathway a protein Sabatini had discovered while still in medical school at Johns Hopkins. |
| 1:10.0 | The M-Tore signaling pathway plays a critical role in tumor development. |
| 1:15.7 | Figuring out how it works would go a long way towards saving countless lives. |
| 1:21.2 | This was why Sabatini was predicted to win the Nobel Prize. It was how he reeled in between |
| 1:27.2 | three and four million dollars every year for his lab from the National Institutes of Health, |
| 1:31.8 | the Pentagon, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, among others. |
| 1:36.0 | It is why his colleagues have described him to me with words like Genius, one of the best scientists alive and a pillar. It's like working for Steve Jobs, he can be brutal, said one scientist, but why would you want to work for anyone else? Today Sabatini is unemployed and unemployable. |
| 1:52.9 | No one wants to be associated with him. |
| 1:54.8 | Those who do risks losing their jobs, publishing opportunities, |
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