Honestly, I wasn't particularly impressed with the rigor of said savagery - it mostly came off as a combination of senior people wanting to flatter their own eg

Honestly, I wasn't particularly impressed with the rigor of said savagery - it mostly came off as a combination of senior people wanting to flatter their own ego and accepted rudeness. I've been completely dismantled in a presentation before, and public health has fairly high stakes as well, but I let people finish their sentence first. The number of interruptions that were then addressed with "That's on the next slide" was staggering.