And, so why did the guy resign?
The truth, scientific fact and the context of statements or actions were all irrelevant to the Stalinists of the 20th century and they remain equally irrelevant to the Stalinists of the 21st century.
Untold millions of people have been executed or have had their lives and/or careers destroyed because they said or wrote something which was absolutely true but was either intentionally taken out of context or was not politically fashionable at the time, as judged by the Left.
Dr. Greenfield obviously loves medicine and would never want to do anything that harms the medical organizations and institutions that he is a part of. If he had not resigned, this one issue would forever be a cloud hanging over his work and the shrill vitriol directed against him would make doing his job next to impossible.
The man is 76 years old, has had a distinguished, landmark career and probably decided that he doesn't need this garbage.
By resigning, he not only says 'sorry' to all offended parties in a very tangible and gracious way, but he very brings the focus away from himself and back where it should be, on the hysterical, obtuse and utterly humorless and politically-driven 'culture' of Leftist militant feminism which has spread as a cancer throughout academia and has metastasized into Medicine as well. He retains the moral high ground while making his detractors look very, very small indeed.
Remember he is @ Moscow on the Huron. Many Freepers would be shocked @ Ann Arbor.
One more note on this vaulted institution... One of my medical gnomes their notes that if you donate 100 large for medical research, the college takes 25% off the top. Hmmm... you think you they might agree to a flat tax (since that is what it is) or are they more like Tony Soprano and getting their taste?
Doesn’t early Alzheimer’s sometimes present w/disinhibition or lapses in judgment? Then, again, doesn’t everyone know of someone who has been the target of character assassination? Does he have a history of saying what he thinks w/o being challenged because of his professional and social status? From past experience, what makes it to the press can be very different from what actually occurred.