[hnfong]

These people should be getting treatment at least on par with what they got with #metoo, why is that not the case?

I mean, personally, I don't really care about reputation of academia, but given that you described a horrible story where somebody basically tried to ruin your career, and given that you decided not to name specific people or institutions, it seems that the whole (UK) academia will have to take the reputation hit for the alleged scandal.

[blandvegetables]

Given that they succeeded in completing the poisoning of my opinion of academia and scientific research there is no career there at all. I say complete because PhDs can feel unpleasant, but that's mostly a result of high stress, difficult work, no security, and complete lack of a social life and interaction with other people for 4 years, rather than science itself but it does set an emotional impression of what research is like that is somewhat difficult to overcome.