Why Harvard was absent from John Mack's eulogy

And yet another fine example of what happens to the
unconventional scientist going against The Institution.

And great changes are never advertised nor welcomed
by the institutionally empty-minded.

But Harvard’s narrower — and narrow-minded —
thinkers looked at Mack’s approach as violating
the medical school’s professional-research
standards (although in fact it was their world-
view that he challenged). Given the opportunity
either to renounce his views or to resign from
the faculty, Mack instead fought a bitter battle
with a committee that was obviously stacked
against him. The committee’s report was scathing
in its critique of Mack, ignoring virtually
everything that he and his lead lawyer, Boston
litigator Roderick MacLeish Jr., had produced not
only to support his work and his successful
clinical results, but to highlight his right,
under principles of academic freedom, to continue
his research unhindered by the university.
(Disclosure: I served as an informal legal
adviser to Mack at the time.)

Several months after the investigative committee
commenced its work, which would ultimately take
15 months, word of this extraordinary inquisition
leaked out and spread like wildfire on the then-
fledgling medium of the Internet. In some
academic and legal circles, Harvard’s
investigation was viewed not as an effort to
uphold intellectual standards of excellence and
accuracy, but as something rooted in fear,
ignorance, or jealousy of Mack’s pursuit of
questions that more rigid minds could not or
would not comprehend.

The entire report.