Ac­cuser fires back at MIT sci­en­tist David Saba­tini's claims he was false­ly ac­cused of sex­u­al ha­rass­ment

When promi­nent biotech founder David Saba­ti­ni was oust­ed by the White­head In­sti­tute and the Howard Hugh­es Med­ical In­sti­tute this sum­mer over sex­u­al ha­rass­ment al­le­ga­tions, he fought back with a law­suit claim­ing he was false­ly ac­cused.

On Mon­day, a main de­fen­dant in that case — one of Saba­ti­ni’s ac­cusers — filed a coun­ter­claim main­tain­ing that Saba­ti­ni con­doned a “tox­ic and sex­u­al­ly charged lab en­vi­ron­ment,” and that he co­erced her in­to a non-con­sen­u­al sex­u­al re­la­tion­ship.

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