I think this comment is a pretty clear example of one way in which Leverage has been treated unfairly, which is that people lump “not very productive” and “abusive” into a single criticism. The latter is much more serious, but the former is much easier to quickly verify, and so the former ends up lending credibility to the latter even though I personally think we probably have too few groups taking philanthropic funding to do crazy research that may end up looking like pseudoscience.
To be very clear, I’m not claiming that Leverage was not an abusive environment, and I take the allegations you mention very seriously. I’ve just also seen people piling onto Leverage in not-very-careful ways that I’m not very happy about.
I think this comment is a pretty clear example of one way in which Leverage has been treated unfairly, which is that people lump “not very productive” and “abusive” into a single criticism. The latter is much more serious, but the former is much easier to quickly verify, and so the former ends up lending credibility to the latter even though I personally think we probably have too few groups taking philanthropic funding to do crazy research that may end up looking like pseudoscience.
To be very clear, I’m not claiming that Leverage was not an abusive environment, and I take the allegations you mention very seriously. I’ve just also seen people piling onto Leverage in not-very-careful ways that I’m not very happy about.