why'd he go into hiding again?

Good on him and UCD for speaking at the clinic. Often times we in the public or fandom are not privy to the actual truth in matters like how his tenure ended at Stanford. We live in a state and an era where "complaints" are taken for fact often times prior to due process. I don't have any skin in the game and don't know the guy, but my guess as a semi-knowledgeable foosball (italics for a Momma Boucher bayou accent) fan is that 3-9/3-9 and a new GM had more to do with the end of his run than complaints that he was hard to work for.

I've seen more than a few times when a new boss comes in, they want 'their people' or hires in top positions.

Bingo.

yikes: Troy Taylor's defamation suit thrown out by judge

Man, don't know why file that lawsuit. Worried about his name obviously, but from what I understand Stanford did a pretty thorough investigation into the matter.

I saw a little clip today from Dr. Jordan Peterson, he says managers are a 60% or 65% net negative contribution, a small amount of people do the lionshare of the work, and thus why Elon Musk could axe so many people at Twitter.

one thing I’ve learned is that HR and Title IX investigators may be thorough but the goal is not to find truth. It is to shift liability away from the organization and onto whichever other party a judge or jury will be least sympathetic to. Hard to know for sure if he was the problem or if he just crossed the wrong Karen. Regardless, suing the news has a pretty low success rate. If he’s a good and qualified keynote speaker, then I think UCD was right to hire him for the event. I think it’s healthy to move past cancel culture.