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From: Lawrence Krauss Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 6:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Buzzfeed strikes back. Lawrence M. Krauss Director, T=e Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor <=b> School o= Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizo=a State University, =a href="x-apple-data- detectors://1/1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-a=ple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors- result="1/1">P=O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 <x-apple-data-detectors://1/1> Research Office Assistant (Jessica) origins.asu.edu I =nbsp;twitter.com/Ikrauss= <http://twitter.com/Ikraussl> I <http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/> Sent from m= iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Aldhous ate:<=b> February 5, 2018 at 8:48:41 AM PST To: Lawrence Kraus Subject: URGENT: BuzzFe= News inquiry re a egations o sexua harassment Dr. Krauss: Since our earlier correspondence, further incidents have come to our=attention. I've outlined the details below and would very much like=to include your response to each in our story. —At the Perimeter Institute's told us that the w=rking environment sometimes made them feel uncomfortable, partly be=ause of your behavior, which they described as sometimes unprofessional and=juvenile. They called you a "sexist" and a "womaniz=r." In particular, they described the following incidents: EFTA_R1_01674544 EFTA02531211  • In early 2016, after a transgender panelist for an upc=ming event negotiated a higher appearance fee, you joked at a group meeting=that "she's got balls," two witnesses said. =/p> • During another meeting around that time, you showed off=a vaguely suggestive doodle you had made of a woman bent over, two witnesse= said. • "It was like being in a room with a 5-year-old a=d a 15-year-old boy at the same time," one former employee said. =80 He had no filter." • At a dinner event at the school's University Cl=b in October 2015, a 19-year-old undergraduate said she was left feeling ac=tely uncomfortable when you looked at her from head to toe, smirked, and to=d her that you liked the short jumper she was wearing. Two witnesses confir=ed her account. * In April 2016, another staffer angrily posted on Facebo=k about how you "suggested that I should dress up like a hula girl w=ile advertising for an event." • Another employee was so upset by your behavior that she=started keeping a written record of offensive incidents. "Said h= understood why people didn't like to hire women of child bearing age becau=e it isn't fair to have to pay maternity benefit," she wrote in one=entry. "Said he's going to buy me birth control so I don't get preg=ant and inconvenience him. Asked if I was planning to get pregnant."=/span> Further miscellaneous information: You are politically liberal. In your public appearances, writings, a=d tweets, you have decried sexism, racism, and homophobia. You tweet provocatively about subjects including Islam, Muslims, Ch=istianity, and Christians. Recently, you have tweeted links to articles que=tioning whether the #metoo movement has gone too far. We also noticed your recent tweet about growing diversity in the sk=ptic movement. Our own reporting on that issue presents a complex picture.<=span> Several female skeptics, after sharing personal accounts of misogyny and harassment<=pan style="font- size:11ptfont-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-colo=:#ffffftfont-weight:400;font-style:normal;font- variant:normal;text-decorat=on:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> by m=n in the community, have been subjected to Gamergate-style online attacks,<=span> including rape and death threats <http://skepchick.org/page-o-hatek . In recent years, </=pan>famous freethinkers have been criticized for their Islamophobia, for cheering <https://www=facebook.com/Michael.Brant.Shermer/posts/10154093771021386> the alt- right media personality Milo Yiannopoulos, and for I=mpooning feminism and gender theory chttps://www.skeptic.com/reading_roo=/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gender-studies/> . ` Do you had any comments on the view that parts of the sk=ptic/atheist movement appear to be sliding into <https://www.salon.com/=017/07/29/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-dark-ages-how-new-atheism-slid-into=the- al t-righth the alt-right?</=pan> Again, if you wish to comment on or clarify any of these points, ple=se get in touch with us as soon as possible. If I do not respond immediatel= it is because I am on another call or teaching, so please leave the best p=one number to reach you. Thanks, 2 EFTA_R1_01674545 EFTA02531212 Peter Aldhous Peter Aldhous, PhD Science re orter BuzzFeed News</=> tel: cell @paldhous <https://twitter.com/paldhous> www.peteraldhous.com <http://www.peteraldhous.com/> 3 EFTA_R1_01674546 EFTA02531213