Interesting to contrast this reaction with what felt like a shrug at MIT in response to allegations in 2006 that a prominent neuroscientist "bullied" a prospective hire -- see http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N52/52tonegawa.html , http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/191/tonegawa.html , http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/191/to_hockfield.pdf , http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N30/30tonegawa.html , and so on.