An­ti-ag­ing re­search foun­da­tion sacks CSO Aubrey de Grey for dis­rupt­ing sex­u­al ha­rass­ment probe

Caught in the cen­ter of a boil­ing con­tro­ver­sy over ac­cu­sa­tions of sex­u­al ha­rass­ment lev­eled against their chief sci­en­tif­ic of­fi­cer, Aubrey de Grey, the board of di­rec­tors of the SENS Re­search Foun­da­tion moved to fire the promi­nent an­ti-ag­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tor over the week­end af­ter they learned that he had in­di­rect­ly at­tempt­ed to ap­ply “pres­sure on one of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion’s par­tic­i­pants.”

De Grey al­most im­me­di­ate­ly fired back on his Face­book page, say­ing he had reached out to one of the ac­cusers — Ce­line Halioua — through a mu­tu­al friend in or­der to en­cour­age her to di­vulge in­for­ma­tion in her pos­ses­sion “iden­ti­fy­ing the true guilty par­ty/par­ties” so that she wouldn’t ap­pear to be hin­der­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion by pro­tect­ing that (uniden­ti­fied) per­son.

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