what a fucking idiot. don’t MPs get any kind of media training? the move would be to make one of those drafted non-committal non-apologies with some almost magnanimous pat on the back to the researcher as a press release and then ignore it.

reaching out to their advisor, applying behind the scenes pressure to remove their name, and make public accusations about “data breaches” or “privacy concerns” is just going to keep this shit in the news cycle, get people interested in a story that started as a historical fact and has blossomed into a clusterfuck. literally, the one doing damage to her reputation and creating a safety concern is her trying to retaliate about this.

honestly, the ted talk could have become a not-widely circulated lefty meme like “check it out, the same families of assholes are still in charge lol” but this is like the streisand thing.