Astrophysicist "outlawed" for the rest of his life, as it seems, because he, allegedly, fell in love with female postgraduate student, then fired her, and then Caltech found him guilty. First a lot of pressure to not hire Ott for a new job in a Finnish university, then the university gave in.

2018-02-08T12:56:16+00:00

Economic death sentence.

mwobuddy · 2018-02-08T09:39:23+00:00

I've got two problems with this: 1) we can't be sure that he got treated fairly by Caltech, 2) and even if he was, shouldn't he be given a second chance?

Here's what went on according to Buzzfeed. If the messages at the top are the worst he sent ... it seems more like a teenage crush than a crime leading to a recruitment ban for the rest of his life.

Proteus_Marius · 2018-02-08T18:26:11+00:00

Hopefully people have learned something from this deplorable incident ...

I learned that the University of Turku will recruit scientists for professorships without due diligence, and then fire them without due process. Hopefully, scientists around the world noticed, too.

charlsey2309 · 2018-02-08T16:05:37+00:00

Academia is competitive and this isn’t professional behavior, I don’t see any reason why he deserves another shot at a highly competitive academic position.

throwaway59232 · 2018-02-08T20:58:42+00:00

This is bad news for men, to say the least. Until now, if you were falsely accused of harassment at a university, you would basically have no chance of finding a new job (at least in certain fields like academia) in your home country (Why do you think he had to move to Finland?)

With this decision, it’s officially gone international now. There’s nowhere in the world to hide anymore from the ever-advancing feminist lynch mob

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