[Shmebulock]

De Grey has always seemed overly eccentric to me. But maybe that is to be expected of someone that works on something as contrarian as anti-aging research.

Sexual harassment is not okay.

To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? Am curious what that legal investigation will find out

[barry-cotter]

> To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness? Am curious what that legal investigation will find out

This isn’t the benefit of the doubt. You don’t get a pass on bad behavior by reason of actual mental illness. If in the grips of psychosis you slander or assault someone you did a bad thing. You do not get off because you have BPD or are schizophrenic or whatever. There are consequences. And even if de Grey is autistic as fuck he’s intelligent enough to emulate allistic people’s basic social sense and something approaching consensus morality. If I can do it he can.

This is not a commentary or prejudgment on whether he did or did not do anything. It could be a giant nothingburger like with rms. He could be a monster. Wait and find out.

[SuoDuanDao]

Conflating lack of social skills with evidence of sexual predation does seem like a very effective attack vector against many of the best academics in the world. I'm inclined to reserve judgement until the facts are in, I don't know any of the players even as celebrities I follow.

[Forbo]

> To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps it was some kind of lack of social skill on De Greys side rather than actual sexual predatoriness?

I really take issue with this defense. Just because someone has NPD for example, doesn't mean that they are free of the consequences of their shitty behavior toward others. Why should autism (or any other socially inhibiting condition) be given special treatment over other disorders?