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Subject: Re:
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 03:40:52 +0000
Yes , thank you ! I am going to Butning Man festival now. How are you ?
On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 17:07, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
are you good.?
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From: Lawrence Krauss
To: jeevacation@gmail.com, nancy dahl
Subject: Contents of blog
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 01:57:35 +0000
The oft Spotted Groper
Dear Creepy SciComm dude,
This is a letter addressed to you, as there are several things I would like to never see happen again in my life
time, after making your acquaintance late last year.
The first would be to never again see you snake your arm over the shoulder of one of my friends, while she is
focusing her phone for a celebrity scientist selfie, and clamp your hand over her breast. This blatant grope was at
the conference dinner, early in the evening, before entree and before the drinking began in earnest. You did this,
despite being at a conference that had a clear non-harassment policy. But hey, maybe you arrived late on the first
day and didn't hear the usual announcement of such a policy. That doesn't explain why one of your male
academic colleagues had felt compelled to warned me three days before, to watch out for you, as you are well
known 'sleaze' in the discipline. This wasn't the 'whispering of women', this was one of your male academic
peers, who only interacts with you at discipline specific conferences, not SciComm events.
Clearly, you have a track record for this behaviour which is repeated over many years, revealed by a quick
google search of your name and the term 'sexual harassment'. Many, many blog posts about similar behaviour,
that have been redacted or removed after threats of litigation. Which explains why I haven't named you here,
even though I would like to shame you in this article. (Although I do have someone looking out for a pro bono
defamation lawyer based in your country, just in case.)
It irks me that your voice is one of the loudest shouting for the organisers of the Science March on DC, a group
previously guilty of downplaying the needs of the most marginalised people in science. You have no right to
downplay the lived experience of these people, considering you have caused of significant amount of
marginalisation of women personally, as an individual. Although no court in the land has convicted you, due to
presumably deep pockets to fund litigious behaviour. You should not be held up as a paragon of pro-science
virtue, as you are part of the problem that causes limited diversity in science, not part of the solution.
Why didn't I complain to the organisers of the conference at which I saw you grope my friend? I tried to support
my friend at the time and to get her to make a complaint, as she was a victim of your poor behaviour. I tried to
get her to give me the incriminating photo that she took of your hand on her breast, but she's decided to hang
onto it in case she needs it as evidence in the future. I didn't make an independent complaint to the organisers, of
my eyewitness account, as they are enthusiastic volunteers and I did not want to give them the trouble of dealing
with such complaint of this nature, of your sexual misconduct.
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Why have I decided to write this now, so many months later? It's because of my anger at seeing your name 'in
lights' as part of the pro-science movement in the US. It's also due to the fact that I had to answer direct
messages on Twitter from a female academic in your country, who had seen my necessarily oblique references to
this groping incident on Twitter , asking me how her students could avoid being treated in the same way as you
had treated my friend.
Am I going to bother to write to your institution, to complain of the behaviour I witnessed from you? No, as they
have a reportedly poor track record in dealing with your behaviour as they tend to look the other way because
you add so much value with free advertising for the institution. Which is a pattern which is repeated by
institutions hosting people like you, time and time again. A bit of unsolicited groping of women at conferences is