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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:22 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION: response to your email you need to stop justifying being afraid . On Wed, Fe= 14, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Lawrence Krauss wrote: Oh. On plane=now and can't call. Btw what is purpose of call exactly?. If someo=e I know called me about this I would ask them to email me with details.=C2* I will try calling him when I land in any case. Am going to send you=revised email to look at too once I am above 10000 feet. Lawrence M. Krauss Director,=The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor =span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> School of Earth &=mp; Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State Universit > =A0P.O. Box 871404 Tem • e AZ 85287-1404<=a> kraus Sent from my iPhone [email protected] <mailto:jeevacation@=mail.com» wrote: </=iv> Calling =div class="gmail_quote"> 018 at 10:28 AM Lawrence K=auss <mailt wrote: after S tries of w=at? am at airport. EFTA_R1_01666531 EFTA02526311  On Feb 14, 2018, at=8:17 AM, jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» wrote: After =ive tries On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:50 AM Lawrence Krauss «= hr > wrote: <=iv style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"> <=lockquote type="cite"> In limo.To airport. I can*=99t find direct number. I think it is best to send a touched up version of=the letter by email first and trying to reach out to Neil after. I know fr=m experience that if I contact Neil by phone he will say he will look into=it and not say anything specific. Let me know about letter. Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origi=s Project at ASU Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space=Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State Universi <=>P.O. Box 871404 Tern •e AZ 85287-1404= s •an> <rpan styler"background-colorrgba(255,255,255,0)">[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> </=pan> origins.asu.edu</=> I <http://origins.asu.edu/> tw=tter.comilkraussl <http://twitterscomilkraussl> I krauss.faculty.asu.edu <http://krauss.fac=lty.asu.eduh <=iv> <DA866543-7401-=A5A-8E50-FD32E33A50EC.png> Sent f=om my iPhone On Feb 14= 2018, at 6:43 AM, Lawrence Krauss <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]=m» wrote: Trying that now. =ut the letter, which is rough as I read it and has to be fine tuned, is qu=te collegial so if I can't reach him I would like to send a touche= up version of it this morning. Lawrence M. Krauss<A> Dir=ctor, The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor =/div> 2 EFTA_R1_01666532 EFTA02526312  School of E=rth & Space Exploration and Physics Department =span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Arizona State Universi=y, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287=1404 <DA866543-7401-4A5A-8E50-FD32E33A50EC.png> Sent from my iPhone <=blockquote> <=div> =div> On Feb 14, 2018, at 6:37 AM, Jeffrey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: =br> Did you cal= him On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 a= 9:32 AM Lawrence Krauss <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» wrote: So should I send this? Please let me =now ASAP. Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Foundation Professor40=A0 Scho=l of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State U=iversit P.O. Box 871404 Tempe A= 85287-1404 =sr <DA=66543-7401-4A5A-8E50-FD32E33A50EC.png> S=nt from my iPhone 3 EFTA_R1_01666533 EFTA02526313  On Feb=13, 2018, at 9:27 PM, Lawrence Krauss <mailto: rote: JEE: HERE IS MY PROPOSED EMAIL.. GO=NG to NEIL TUROK. Comments welcome <=iV> Dear Neil and Michael: Attached is a copy =f some correspondence from Buzzfeed, which has followed on six months of c=rrespondence, following on a claim that two universities I am affiliated w=th had previously shown to be false. Buzzfeed produced S false alleg=tions off the web which I subsequently demonstrated to be false, in an att=mpt to suggest a history of sexual harassment by me. <=div> Following that Buzzfeed searched for other defamatory examples, a=d through someone at Perimeter received the following claim. —At th= Perimeter Institute's Q=804>Quantum to Cosmos" Festival in October 2009, a wo=an made a formal complaint of sexual harassment against you. The institute=immediately removed you from the premises and banned you from ever coming =ack. =/div> <Mockquote> </=iv> </=iv> After I disputed=this claim, they came back with the following claim, which they said was o= the record by someone from Perimeter: In October of 2009, you went to Waterloo, Ontario, to be a g=est speaker at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival <http://www.perimete=institute.ca/video-library/collection/quantum- cosmos-festival-2009?page==> at the Perimeter Institute. s 4 EFTA_R1_01666534 EFTA02526314  During the event, a sexual harassm=nt complaint was filed against you. You were immediately removed from the pre=ises and banned from ever coming back. The institute would not provide more d=tails to respect the complainant's privacy. =div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-spac="> I disputed this,=and included an email from you, Neil as a demonstration that it was false =1 redacted the information that was not relevant to them): <=div> B=gin forwarded message: om: "Neil Turok" <mailto:S u ubjec=: Holden XXX <=iv style="margin:0px">Date: March 31, 2011 at 9:30:26 AM MST To: Than= you for sending the email from Neil Turok. We have raised this with the P=rimeter Institute, which has clarified its position, as follows: burin= the event, a sexual harassment complaint was filed with the administratio= against you. In 2012, as part of a fo=mal review of its internal policies, the institute made a decision that yo= would not be invited to return. <Mockquote> As you can see, the ori=inal claim by Buzzfeed, which they claimed was verified 'on the re=ord' by Perimeter, was false. I believe this final claim is =alse, and I would like confirmation from you.. It may be a fine point, but=l believe it is important. Originally Michael informed me immediatel= after the event that there was a complaint of inappropriate communication=with one of the staff, something I indicated then and reiterate now, I am =ot aware of at all, but be that as it may, he informed me at the time by e=ail that with no further communication with that person, the matter was cl=sed. Several years later I was invited to give another public lectu=e but your outreach 5 EFTA_R1_01666535 EFTA02526315 coordinator later rescinded the invitation, although l=was reimbursed for that. As you are aware, I subsequently discussed =his with Neil in Vancouver in that year, and inquired about exactly what i= was all about, and informed him that either a formal procedure to resolve=any issue in which I could participate and respond might be appropriate, o= the matter should be dropped. Neil said he would explore the matter, and =either he, nor anyone else, ever contacted me following that. I hav= never been informed of anything like Buzzfeed has claimed. Indeed I have =een invited back to Perimeter for scientific meetings by various colleague= in the intervening years. I am very=concerned by this claim below, for obvious reasons. First, the origi=al Perimeter source provided false and defamatory information to Buzzfeed,=changing a story only after I provided counter-evidence. Second, as =ou are aware Perimeter has never contacted me about any such proviso in th= interim. The only document I ever received was in 2009 from michael=assuring me the matter was closed, whatever it was. I would find it =ighly irregular if any formal procedure took place with such an outcome wi=hout my knowledge or without any due process, and without subsequently inf=rming me. I expect the correct statement, =f there is one, is that there was a complaint from someone at Perimeter ab=ut inappropriate communication at the final party or while being driven ba=k to the hotel after it (for all I know it may have been about religious i=sues), and that 3 years later a decision was made by the outreach coordina=or, perhaps in collaboration with others, not to invite me back at that ti=e for a public lecture. Please confirm my =nderstanding of this issue for me if you will. As you can imagine, m=king this public is embarrassing enough for me, especially since I persona=ly maintain whatever I may have said wasn't inappropriate, and the=e was certainly no sexual harassment by any definition of that word.. inde=d there was nothing sexual in any discussion I know of. Nevertheless= if something is to be reported, indicating that it was a communication is=ue, and there was no formal ban on my returning to Perimeter (especially a= nothing along these lines was ever communicated to me and I have received=invites since that time) is less damning than suggesting otherwise. =s Buzzfeed has tried, at every turn, to misrepresent facts in the worst po=sible light, it is important for me to not allow them to continue to do th=s. For example, they contacted my university and asked if there any =laims fo sexual harassment against me at the University, and though the Un=versity said there were not, but that there was an external allegation abo=t a remote event that had been discredited (the one I mentioned above), Bu=zfeed announced they would report that they contacted the University with = request for information about sexual harassment allegations and were not =iven any information in return.. Last, it c=uld be of course that Buzzfeed has reiinterpeted statements from Perimeter=staff, but if a member of your staff made the original false allegation to=Buzzfeed (violating confidentiality in the process I expect) I would like =ou to at least be aware of this and act accordingly. <=div> Thanks very much for your prompt and immediate attention to this =equest. Lawrence Krauss La=rence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Co=mology Initiative Founda=ion Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Phy=ics Department Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tem=e, AZ 85287-1404 6 EFTA_R1_01666536 EFTA02526316 llxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQia=WcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9I5Up33Th7MWHY16=w7yU BP2c&s=Gc-m4FUPqBmB-H8qg0HdYhSQN_hZ8rHMdpRIHI-BC6B0&e=> I twitter.com/Ikrauss1</=> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http- 3A t=itter.com_lkraussl&d=DQMFAg&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZ=k4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQiaqWcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&m=ciP=7mEbO4349G8_Nf9l5Up33Th7MWHYf6uw7yU BPZc&s=mspp0SBZaPjp5BOPRbD2xXlzHC=4LgzTZ8KNgjNBBKg&e=> I krauss.faculty.asu.edu <https://urldef=nse.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http- 3A_krauss.faculty.asu.edu_&d=DQM=Ag&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOlQia=WcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9I5Up33Th7MWHYf6=w7yU BPZc&s=f7W9C_XvplQaElpZ3o8vIh0dM_eOhTXbMIVPaUviEt8&e=> </=iv> -Origins Project 10 Year Celebration- Be a part of someth=ng 10 years in the making! April 5-9th 2018 —=C2,Visit for m=re info <https://www.originsl0year.com/> =span style="font-size:llpt"> <image002.png> =br> Begin forwarded message: Fro=: Peter Aldhous <mailto = div> Subject: Re: CLA=IFICATION: response to your email Date: February 13, 2018 at 2:54:26 PM PST =/span> To: Lawrence=Krauss =r. Krauss: =span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background- color:transparen=;font-weight:4O0;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normafifont-vari=nt-caps:normal;font- variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:none;vertica=-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for sending the email from=Neil Turok. We have raised this with the Perimeter Institute, which has cl=rified its position, as follows: 7 EFTA_R1_01666537 EFTA02526317  During the event, a sexual harassment complaint was fi=ed with the administration against you. In 2012, as part of a formal review of its internal po=icies, the institute made a decision that you would not be invited to retu=n. If you wish to further comment on o= clarify any of these points, please get in touch with us by tomorrow (Wed=). Thanks, Peter Aldhous On 2/12/18 8:20 AM, Lawrence =rauss wrote: Although I wasn't going to bother and shouldn'= need to, just one example among many: in this case 17 months after Q2C, email from the Director of the Perimeter Institute. I don't know how it could be much clearer.. =1 have redacted out the rest of the body of the letter because it refers to a hiring issue that is irrelevant to you).. adiv> Begin forwarded message: From:Q=A0'Neil Turok" <mailto: Subject:=C2*Holden XXX Date:Q=A0March 31, 2011 at 9:30:26 AM MST To: =/b> 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 regard to Holden XXX, who I have bee= working with recently ... With my best wishes, Neil 8 EFTA_R1_01666538 EFTA02526318  On Feb 9, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Lawrence Krauss <mailt > wrote: Oh yes, definitely and demonstrably.. I dispute everything except the first bullet point, with substantial evidentiary email communication... so you had better =Iert whoever went on the record at the perimeter institute about the consequences of making false allegations. LM K <=>Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU =/b> Foundation Professor </=> School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University. P.=. Box 871404 Tempe. 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During the event, a sexual harassment complaint was filed =gainst you. You were immediately removed from the premises and banned =rom ever coming back. The institute would not provide more details to respect th= complainant's privacy. Do=you dispute any of these statements? If=you'd like to further clarify your position on these statements, p=ease contact me before 12 noon Pacific on Saturday, Feb 10. Pe=er Aldhous --4>=A0 Peter Aldhous Science reporter I Buzz=eed News=/span> @paldhous PGP Fingerprint: 225F B2AF 488E 6E3D B1EA 7F9A 896E BF70 9C92 9816 S=nd secure tips <https:=/contact.buzzfeed.com/> </=iv> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Lawrence Krauss < wrote: 10 EFTA_R1_01666540 EFTA02526320  Peter: Got your phone call yesterday shortly before I finished a lecture and then headed to the airport to return home late last night, as I had indicated in my last email. I am responding below to your issues, which are yet again false and/or misleading. I cannot keep doing this. I have told you repeatedly that there is no basis for a story here. I and others have responded to false allegations, but you and your colleagues have continued to barrage me, my family, and my colleagues with a series of false allegations and innuendo for the past 6 months. So it see=s you have decided to produce some kind of defamatory story, independent of evidence to the contrary, and you are asking me to help you do your work to write it. I don't know =hat else to say. I ask you again to stop this harassment, and not write a story based on false and misleading defamatory allegations to justify some foregone conclusion that might defame me and/or other individuals or groups, and in the process can hurt genuine efforts by many of us to address important issues, from encouraging diversity in STEM education around the world, to fighting ideological efforts that endorse sexism, racism, homophobia or attempt to suppress free speech and free thought. LM K On Feb 5, 2018, at 9:48 AM, Peter Aldhous wrote: Dr.=Krauss: Since our earlier correspon=ence, further incidents have come to our attention. I've outlined =he details below and would very much like to include your response to each=in our story. —At the Perimeter Institute's "Quantum to Cosmos" Festival in Oct=ber 2009, a woman made a formal complaint of sexual harassment against you= The institute immediately removed you from the premises and banned you fr=m ever coming back. <=pan style="font-size:9ptcolor:windowtext">l am not made aware of any formal complaint of sexual harassment against me at Perimeter, which would have resulted in either formal proceedings or letters or emails to me. I did attend the "Quantum to Cos=os" Festival for several days and was never 'removed from the premises'. After I left I received thanks and further assistance from the staff. Nor was I banned from returning to Perimeter. I have maintained a collegial relationship with various colleagues there who have invited me to return on several occasions. =/p> Peter Aldhous, PhD BuzzFeed News 11 EFTA_R1_01666541 EFTA02526321  =/div> =/div> Q=AO please note The information contained in this communication is<=r>confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute insid= information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is =he property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of thiscommunication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be un=awful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify =s immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected] cmailto:[email protected]> , and destro= this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. =opyright -all rights reserved =/blockquote> <=div> =C24> please note The information contained in this communic=tion is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constit=te inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addresse=. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying =f this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and =ay be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, pleas= notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], ander>destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all atta=hments. copyright -all rights reserved Lawrence M. Krauss=br>Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiati=e Foundation Professor=C24, School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Departmen= Arizona State University, P.O. 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