[AndrewC]

In fact, his status as an ID whiner even had one Smithsonian employee offering to sponsor him so as to not give him further reason to whine.

I believe your timeline is severely in error. No whining was done until after the actions were taken. Here

Email copies

is the email traffic effectively portraying the atmosphere at the Smithsonian invoked because Sternberg allowed the Meyer article to be published.

[antiRepublicrat]

I believe your timeline is severely in error. No whining was done until after the actions were taken.

What actions? You mean office and security key shuffle? Oh horrors, he was subject to the same bureaucratic minutiae as everybody else! And this even after he was caught multiple times not following SI rules regarding the collections.

is the email traffic effectively portraying the atmosphere at the Smithsonian invoked because Sternberg allowed the Meyer article to be published.

Yeah, when you do stuff like that, you can generally expect others to not be happy with you. Still, it resulted in no adverse actions. I'm not going to say adverse employment actions because contrary to what they'd like you to believe, he wasn't employed there.