I bet many people at MediaLab knew what was going on in OpenAg. Research world is small and these are the kind of things people cannot help but internally talk

I bet many people at MediaLab knew what was going on in OpenAg. Research world is small and these are the kind of things people cannot help but internally talk about. We now live in the world of instant popularity and power. Once you have good affiliation and can make big claims, you can count on getting on late night shows, TED, 60 minutes, NYT etc. Corrupt people fully leverage this media circus to become a force to get new funding, make org wide decisions, sit on boards and committees. I bet there are few other "Theranos" at MediaLab and everyone knows who they are. The question is not that whole lab was corrupt but the fact that lab culture allowed and even perhaps embraced these corrupt groups to exist and grow.