At the same time, I think this post demonstrates a kind of selective unawareness that I’ve seen members of the EA community demonstrate. A significantly less charitable summary of Scott’s situation is “our prospective kidney donor is newly-married high-stress professional with a history of SSRI usage who has recently experienced significant negative public attention and belongs to an actively-imploding community/cult.” This is almost certainly what the UCSF administrators perceived, and his latent hostility to them almost certainly didn’t help.
This doesn’t necessarily justify their decision (maybe they are just bureaucrats), but it’s a framing that’s roughly as plausible as the bucolic EA one that’s presented. A community that has a self-stated mission in rationality should be able to see that.