All the more reason for you to do the work on the subject which obsesses you since you brought both of them up.
I might mention that what Ben Stein is charging is McCarthyism. That was a dubious kind of victimhood, even when it was the real thing. Hollywood really did shut down careers, pretty much monolithically. But talented people worked around it.
Okay, so you are justifying or trivializing this discrimination.
But neither you nor Ben Stein have named anyone who has become unemployed or who has been forced to take a menial job outside the realm of biology.
I told you Sternberg. RA is not RC. Crocker lost a job. Your complaint is that the discrimination does not rise to your level of expectation. You have already demonstrated that you trivialize that discrimination.
Email traffic on Sternberg.
As he hasn’t (yet) been discovered to have done anything wrong, particularly compared to his peers, the sole reason to terminate his appt. seems to be that the host unit has suddenly changed its mind. If that’s OK w NMNH, let me know and I'll send him a letters stating so. However, as you decided originally, the political downside of that is costly.
Looks like a witch hunt to me.
Except for one problem: Sternberg didn't lose his job. Yes, lots of nasty email about him was sent by his peers because of things he'd done (publishing without process, mishandling of SI artifacts, etc.), but they never led to a dismissal.