We previously looked at what MIT’s top biologists were up to in Who pays when a jury finds that a survivor is lying? What I hadn’t realized, though, was that many of the events played out during humanity’s desperate struggle against the world’s most lethal respiratory virus.
In the fall of 2020, most states were still deep in coronapanic, e.g., with closed schools and demands that peasants Follow The Science. (Not Florida, of course! It was illegal for children to stay home from school.) What was Dr. Knouse, Ph.D. biologist doing? Instead of trying to see if she could be useful in the War against SARS-CoV-2, she was working toward her successful shut down of another lab at Whitehead/MIT. The Sabatini Lab’s efforts could have been useful in the fight against COVID-19 or a future pandemic, according to our most eminent biologist (ChatGPT):
There is a particularly strong scientific connection between David Sabatini’s research and potential treatments for COVID-19. In fact, scientists studying SARS-CoV-2 identified one of the molecular pathways that Sabatini helped discover and characterize as a possible target for antiviral drugs.
There are two important connections: his pioneering work on mTOR, a protein complex involved in cell growth and metabolism, and his laboratory’s expertise in genome-wide CRISPR screening.
Sabatini is best known for his role in discovering the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and explaining how cells use this pathway to regulate growth, metabolism, and protein synthesis.
Viruses depend on cellular machinery to reproduce. SARS-CoV-2 is no exception.
A February 2021 article in The Lancet Healthy Longevity also argued that rapamycin and related mTOR inhibitors warranted clinical trials to evaluate whether they could prevent infection or reduce severe COVID-19.
Toddlers in Maskachusetts were forced to wear saliva-soaked facerags 8 hours/day in the fall of 2020. American seniors in prime health were dropping dead every day (see Wave of death among the elderly bankrupts Social Security for what happens to a pension system when beneficiaries who were expected to live 10-20 additional years are killed). What was Dr. Kristin Knouse up to? She was comfortably on her iPhone working on a personal vendetta. Sample text messages from the Deplorables at Fox (searching for “knouse text messages site:nytimes.com” yields no results since, per usual, there are alternative realities for Fox and the NYT!):
It looks like Sabatini was too distracted by work and his new lover(s?) to realize that Knouse was trying to destroy him and his lab. As of November 2020, Tobi Oni reports that Sabatini was “speaking about [Knouse] in glowing terms”:
Two female professors chatting in 2021:
(Their glee about MIT revoking tenure reminds me of my late friend Joel Fajans describing how tenure worked at U.C. Berkeley: “I can be fired for any reason, except incompetence.” The survivor talks about how she “drank champagne while watching the Tweets” (little did she imagine that just over a year later X would be turned into a space where Deplorables would be able to post freely!).)
Here’s a text message that didn’t come from Fox (source) and I’m not sure of the date:
Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu’s Christmas present to her subjects in 2021 was ordering 5-year-olds to be injected with an experimental non-FDA approved drug if they wanted to go into a restaurant, theater, sports arena, or any other indoor public place. (See Two-year anniversary of Boston’s order that 5-year-olds be injected with an experimental vaccine in order to appear in public.) Until 2025, any shots for 5-year-olds were administered under an FDA Emergency Use Authorization. So the coronapanic emergency was an “emergency” from the point of view of the FDA, but not enough of an emergency that an MIT biologist could temporarily set aside her personal grievances.
Loosely related, the Fox article links to the Whitehead’s DEI report in which the German-born director, Ruth Lehmann, brags about hiring based on race and gender ID (“Improving the hiring, retaining and promoting of diverse talent”) and excluding white males from high school programs:
Launching the Whitehead Institute High School Internship Program, in which high school students in grades 10 to 12 from historically underrepresented groups will work directly with our Members, post-docs and staff scientists to explore biomedical science and gain experience with hands-on research.
Substantially all of their money comes from taxpaying peasants. The report notes that some of these tax dollars were used to hire full-time DEI bureaucrats. The report also highlights that the institute won’t highlight research results, unless absolutely forced to, by white males.
(Based on her bio, Prof. Dr. Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D. has no children. So her personal example might not be too inspiring to any young female who (a) loves #TheScience, and (b) wants to have children. In other words, she shows that the price of success in biology is becoming a biological dead end. (See “Women in Science”))
Finally, let’s look at some must-watch video for any expert witness going into a deposition. If the patent litigator asks what you meant when you texted “I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and feel like I’ve been gang-raped!”, start talking about how you had gone for your annual visit to the gym. (What kind of odds are available for a bet that this text message and deposition transcript section never shows up in the New York Times?)
“Evidently, we did end up having sex” is another example of how Prof. Dr. Knouse, Ph.D. is the best deponent in the history of litigation. The video also covers gaps in the text chain that she produced for the internal Whitehead/MIT investigation. These gaps weren’t noticed by the IQ 207 lab directors and the 150 Harvard Law graduates at the firm that Whitehead hired to investigate the purported misdeeds of David Sabatini. Our 11-year-old has better electronic forensics skills.
Phil, your ongoing support for a fellow MITer is so inspiring! Everyone now knows that I learned about the special beauty of gang rape, gang bangs and group sex parties as a student of #Science (Biology and Human Sexuality) when I was an undergraduate at Duke. And, it is so rewarding to know that I was able to bring those Teachings of #Science to MIT too…and that the MIT Community (including you, of course) is so deeply appreciative!
I feel like by sharing our beautiful stories recently, my BFF friend Lucy Craig and I have really helped open up so many new opportunities for young and super-smart young women like us!
Thank you, Prof. Dr. Knouse, Ph.D. There is nothing more inspiring than a strong independent woman. Please give our regards to Lucy Craig/Jane Doe and I hope that she can learn from your master class in being deposed.