There is a polite way of telling someone to kill themselves?
Anyway...I'm still a newb to the snake community but what I see here is something that could've been absolutely avoided had the OP just chilled out and owned up to his mistake. I'm sure he's not the first person to have possibly done harm to an animal while intending to help. I feel like if he'd just owned up to that and not tried to cover his behind this would have never gotten so out of hand. Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride, own your mistakes, and know when you are wrong and really just need to shut up and listen. OP, I don't know how they do things in the Physics world, but surely someone in the academic world knows better than to make baseless assumptions rather than to listen to the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
That being said I really dislike 'witch hunts' and attempts to screw with his life beyond what's necessary to get the snake out of his care and ensure this never happens again. I've seen these things turn ugly.