Clarifying the Sabatini case: her MIT PhD was done before the relationship began
kevinnbass · x · 2026-11-09
A widely misunderstood point about the Sabatini case gets corrected: Knouse's MIT PhD was fully completed before her relationship with Sabatini began — only the Harvard MD portion was still outstanding at that time.
This means Sabatini was never her professor at MIT when the relationship started, undermining the common narrative of a nefarious advisor-student power dynamic. The author argues the case is far more complicated than public commentary suggests.
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