The toast prompted a backlash, especially on Twitter. Lander, already burned by blasts for minimizing the roles of Doudna and Charpentier in his “Heroes of CRISPR” article, apologized. “I was wrong to toast, and I’m sorry,” he wrote in a note to his Broad colleagues that he made public. “I reject his views as despicable. They have no place in science, which must welcome everyone.”
Cancelled
