[NicolasGorden]

> My advisor was hemorrhaging students, yet no red flags were raised. ... Those who planned to complete their PhD left the group or left MIT.

This literally tells me nothing.

What's the average completion rate in that field? What's it for other great professors?

"hemorrhaging", like "abuse" is very vague language. I don't like condemning people based on this. It seems like a slippery slope.

Again, if you can point out a particular accusation in that article you feel deserves complete condemnation and the type of upheaval we are seeing, please point it out. I'd like to learn.

Otherwise, I'll continue to see this as a failed Navy Seal complaining about how tough it is to become a Navy Seal without understanding that the difficulty is built into the concept of why it's elite. If it was easy, there'd be no status associated to it.