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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:37 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: final draft email yes, but i dont think they will respond. =C240 so a call is better this is not academia, th=s is tabloid On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Lawrence Krauss = wrote: <=span> wrote: Dear Neil and Michael: =div>Attached is a copy of some correspondence from Buzzfeed, which has fol=owed on six months of attempts (following on their being contacted by a th=rd party who made a claim regarding a selfie session at an event in Austra=ia that ASU and ANU had previously shown to be false) to produce allegatio=s of sexual harassment by me. Over this period they produced 5 false=allegations, primarily off of web claims which I subsequently demonstrated=to be false. Nevertheless the harassment by them has continued. Most recently, Buzzfeed searched for other defamatory =xamples, and through someone, presumably at Perimeter, received the follow=ng claim. =div> —At the Perimeter =nstitute's "Quantum to Cosmos" Festival in October 2009, a woman made a f=rmal complaint of sexual harassment against you. The institute immediately=removed you from the premises and banned you from ever coming back.=/div> =/div> <=div> =/div> After I disp=ted this claim, they came back with the following claim, which they said w=s on the record by someone from Perimeter: EFTA_R1_01666315 EFTA02526151  =blockquote type="cite"> =n October of 2009, you went to Waterloo, Ontario, to be a guest speaker at=the Quantum to Cosmos Festiv=l <http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/v=deo-library/collection/quantum-cosmos- festival-2009?page=2> =at the Perimeter Institute. During the event, a sexual harassment=complaint was filed against you. You were immediately removed f=om the premises and banned from ever coming back. The institute =ould not provide more details to respect the complainant's privacy. </=pan> <=iv style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"> <=iv> =/div> I disputed this, and included an email from=you, Neil as a demonstration that it was false (I redacted the information=that was not relevant to them): Begin forwarded message: From: =/span>"Neil Turok" <mailto S=bject: Holden XXX </=iv> Date: March 31, 2011 at 9:30:26 AM MST To: < Dear Larry, I hope you'=re doing very well. It was nice to have you at PI for the Q2C Festival and=I do hope you'll be able to visit again soon. I'm writing in re=ard to Holden XXX, who I have been working with recently ... </=iv> With my best wishes,Neil Subsequent to t=at, Buzzfeed came back with the following: 2 EFTA_R1_01666316 EFTA02526152  </=iv> Thank you for sending the email from Neil T=rok. We have raised this with the Perimeter Institute, which has clarified=its position, as follows: During the event, a sexual haras=ment complaint was filed with the administration against you. In 2012, as part of a formal review of it= internal policies, the institute made a decision that you would not be in=ited to return. =div> I believe this final claim is fal=e, and I would like confirmation from you. It may be a fine point, but I b=lieve it is important. Originally Michael informed me immediately af=er the event in 2009 that there was a complaint of inappropriate com=unication with one of the staff--something I still dispute--but be that as=it may, he informed me by email that I shoudn't communicate with t=e staff I had interacted with at the time, and the matter was then conside=ed closed. Several years later I was invited to give another public=lecture but your outreach coordinator later rescinded the invitation, alth=ugh I was reimbursed for that. As you are aware, I subsequently disc=ssed my concern about this with Neil in Vancouver in that year, and inquir=d about exactly what it was all about, and informed him that either a form=l procedure to resolve any issue in which I could participate and respond =ight be appropriate, or the matter should be dropped. Neil said he would e=plore the matter, and neither he, nor anyone else, ever contacted me follo=ing that. I have never been informed of anything like Buzzfeed has =laimed. Indeed I have been invited back to Perimeter for scientific meetin=s by various colleagues in the intervening years. I would fin= it highly irregular if any formal procedure took place with such an outco=e without my knowledge or without any due process, and without subsequentl= informing me, and all evidence I have suggests the contrary. =div> I am very concerned by this claim below, for obvious re=sons. First, the original Perimeter source provided false and defama=ory information to Buzzfeed, changing a story only after I provided counte=-evidence. The accurate history if there is one, is that the=e was a complaint from someone at Perimeter about inappropriate communicat=on and that 3 years later a decision was made by the outreach coordi=ator, perhaps in collaboration with others, not to invite me back at that =ime for a public lecture. I would like to have your confirm for me t=at Buzzfeed's claim is incorrect a it stands I would prefer =o leave it at that, but if necessary one could add that there was a report=of inappropriate communication with an employee at the event at the time, =hich I disputed and the matter was closed. Please=confirm my understanding of this issue for me if you will. As you ca= imagine, making this public is embarrassing for me, Buzzfeed has tr=ed, at every turn, to misrepresent facts in the worst possible light, it i= important for me to not allow them to continue to do this with impunity.=C2* For example, they contacted my university and asked if there any cla=ms fo sexual harassment against me, and though the University explicitly r=plied there were none from the University, but that there was an external =negation about a remote event that the University had investigated and ha= discredited (the one I mentioned above) and about which they would theref=re not provide further information, Buzzfeed informed me that they intende= to report that they contacted the University with 3 EFTA_R1_01666317 EFTA02526153 a request for informati=n about sexual harassment allegations at ASU and that the University would=not give them any information. Last, while =t would not ber surprising if Buzzfeed has reiinterpeted statements from P=rimeter staff just to elicit a response, but if a member of your staff mad= the original false allegation to Buzzfeed (violating confidentiality in t=e process I expect) I wanted you to be aware of this possibility, and if n=cessary act accordingly. I really appreciat= your prompt attention to this request. Lawrence =rauss Lawrence M. Kr=uss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Init=ative Foundation Profess=r School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Departm=nt Arizona State Universit , P.O. 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