Susanne Tauber, Nancy F. Oliveri, Dora Kostakopoulou and Morteza Mahmoudi
FEBS PRESS
The Scientists’ Forum
2022
Academic harassment is a serious, yet unresolved, issue that not only affects targets (e.g. students, postdocs and faculties of various ranks but also the people around them and even the scientific community as a whole. There is often staunch defence and protection of harassers, mainly because of the federal grant, industry and foundation funding that is usually drawn in by the harassers. The common narrative is that the harasser is advancing science, mentoring future scientists and is simply too good to lose …