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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:
• 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 by m=n in the community, have been subjected to Gamergate-style online attacks, including rape and death threats http://skepchick.org/page-o-hate/ . In recent years, 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 https://www.skeptic.com/reading_roo=/conceptual-penis-social-contract-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/2017/07/29/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-dark-ages-how-new-atheism-slid-into-the-alt-right/ 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,
Peter Aldhous
Peter Aldhous, PhD
Science reporter | BuzzFeed News</=>
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, T=e Origins Project at ASU
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