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From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:41 PM To: Lawrence Krauss Subject: Re: CLARIFICATION: response to your email can you get a perimter official to write their version to =ou or peter On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:27 PM, Lawrence Krauss <=a href="mailto target="_blank" -> wrote: fyi =div> Lawrence M. Krauss Direc=or, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative=/b> Foundation Professor <=span> School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizon= State University, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Rese=rch Office: <tel: > I Assistant (Jessica): 9825> <tel: > <mailto > origins.asu.edu I twitter.com/Ikrarssl <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3Dhttp- 3A twitter.com_lkraussl&d=DQMFAg&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqy=2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQiaqWcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5T=&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9l5Up33Th7MWHYf6uw7yU BPZc&s=mspp0SBZaPjp5=OPRbD2xXlzHCi4LgzTZ8KNgjNBBKg&e=> 1</=> Origins Project 10 Year Celebration- Be a part of something 10 yea=s in the making! April 5-9th 2018 40=80, Visit for more info <https://www.originsl0year.com/> =span> =br> Begin forwarded message: From: Lawrence Krauss < Subject: <=pan style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,sans=serif">Re: CLARIFICATION: response to your email Date: February 9,=2018 at 2:04:43 PM PST EFTA_R1_01668082 EFTA02527437  To: Peter Aldhous < <mailtol >> <=span> Cc: <mailto >> Oh yes, definitely and demons=rably.. I dispute everything except the first bullet point, with substanti=l evidentiary email communication... so you had better alert w=oever went on the record at the perimeter institute about the consequences=of making false allegations. LMK Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The=Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor Schoo= of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State =niversity, P.O. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Off=ce: <tel: > I Assistant (Jessica): <tel Origins=Office (Cynthia): <tel: origins.asu.edu<=a> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/urI=u=http- 3A_origins.asu.edu_&d=DQMFAg&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2=jiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOlQiaqWcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&=mp;m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9I5Up33Th7MWHYf6u w7yUBP2c&s=Gc-m4FUP0m8-H8=g0HdYhSQN_hZ8rHMdpPJHH3C660&e=> I twitter.com/Ikraussl <https://urlde=ense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http- 3A_twitter.com_lkraussl&d=DQMFA=&c=AGbYxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQiaqW=FOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9l5Up33Th7MWHYf6uw=yU BP2c&s=mspp0SF3ZaPjp58OPRbD2xXlzHCi4LgzTZ8KNgjNBBKg&e=> I krauss.faculty.asu. <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=ht=p- 3A_krauss.faculty.asu.edu_&d=DQMFAg&c=AGbYxf.lbXK67KfXyGqyv2=jiz41F4QuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQiaqWcFOihHC0LZCntZCR8Xtq5BHKNVR5To&=mp;m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9I5Up33Th7MWHY(6u w7yUBP2c&s=f7W9C_XvplQaElp=3o8vIh0dM_e0hTXbMIVPaUviEt8&e=> -</=pan>Orig=ns Project 10 Year Celebration- Be a part of something 10 years in the making! A=ril 5-9th 2018 — Visit for more info <https://www.or=ginsl0year.com/> <=i> 4>=A0 =br> On Feb 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Peter Aldho=s <mailto > wrote: 2 EFTA_R1_01668083 EFTA02527438  Dr. Krauss: To clarify, we plan to publish eac= of the following statements, which have all been confirmed on the record =y the Perimeter Institute: <=pan style="font-size:l0ptfont-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255=255);font- weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-=ariant-caps:normal;font-variant-east- asian:normal;text-decoration:none;verrical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In October of 2009, you went to =aterloo, Ontario, to be a guest speaker at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival <http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video- library/collection/quantum-=osmos-festival-2009?page=2> at t=e Perimeter Institute. <=pan style="font-size:l0ptfont-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgrou=d- color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:no=mal;text-decoration:none;vertical- align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dur=ng the event, a sexual harassment complaint was filed against you. =/div> x <=pan style="font-size:l0ptfont-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgrou=d- color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:no=mal;text-decoration:none;vertical- align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">You=were immediately removed from the premises and banned from ever coming bac=. <=pan style="font-size:l0ptfont-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);backgrou=d- color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:no=mal;text-decoration:noneyertical- align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The=institute would not provide more details to respect the complainant's =rivacy. Do you dispute any of these st=tements? If you'd like to furth=r clarify your position on these statements, please contact me before 12 n=on Pacific on Saturday, Feb 10. Peter Aldhous Peter Aldhous Science reporter I BuzzFeed News tel: <tel:i cell: <tel: => <mailto <https://twitter.com PGP Fingerprint: Send secure tips <https://contact.buzzfeed.com=> 3 EFTA_R1_01668084 EFTA02527439  On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Lawrence Krauss < <mailto:lawkrauss=gmail.com» wrote: Pet=r: 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. = 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 seems 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 w=at else to say. I ask you again to stop this harassmen=, 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. =MK On Feb 5, 2018, at 9:48 AM, Peter Aldhous > wrote: Dr. Krauss:=/div> Since our earlier correspondence, further incidents have co=e 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 Insti=ute's " I 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 Cosmosffr=9D 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 bann=d from returning to Perimeter. I have maintained a collegial relationship with various colleagues there who have invited me to return on several occasions.4>=A0 —Former employees of the Origi=s Project told us that the w=rking environment sometimes made them feel uncomfortable, part=y because of your behavior, which they described as sometimes unprofession=l and juvenile. They called you a "sexist" and a "=omanizer." 4 EFTA_R1_01668085 EFTA02527440  In particular, they described the following incidents: In early 2016, after a trans=ender panelist for an upcoming event negotiated a higher appearance fee, y=u joked at a group meeting that "she's got balls,"=two witnesses said. During another meeting around that time= you showed off a vaguely suggestive doodle you had made of a woman bent o=er, two witnesses said. "It was like being in a room wi=h a 5-year-old and a 15-year-old boy at the same time," one former=employee said. "He had no filter." At a dinner event at the school4)«.99s University Club in October 2015, a 19-year-old undergraduate said she =as left feeling acutely uncomfortable when you looked at her from head to =oe, smirked, and told her that you liked the short jumper she was wearing.=Two witnesses confirmed her account. In April 2016, another staffer angrily =osted on Facebook about how you "suggested that I should dress up =ike a hula girl while advertising for an event." Another employee was so upset=by your behavior that she started keeping a written record of offensive in=idents. "Said he understood why people=didn't like to hire women of child bearing age because it isn't fa=r to have to pay maternity benefit," she wrote in one entry. Q=80' Said he's going to buy me birth control so I don't get pregna=t and inconvenience him. Asked if I was planning to get pregnant."=/span> I=am proud that the Origins Project has been an open and supportive program since it was created. Our team works in a transparent environment of candor and trust, where people can thrive and discuss all issues openly and frankly with mutual respect as part of a safe supportive team. Staff are encouraged to provide feedback and I and my managers have regular meetings with staff to discuss potential problems and concerns. No one has ever has brought up complaints along any of these lines to any of us, nor has anyone complained to the University in this regard about any such issues. Quite the contrary. Further miscellaneous informati=n: You ar= politically liberal. In your public appearances, writings, and tweets, yo= have decried sexism, racism, and homophobia. You tweet pr=vocatively about subjects including Islam, Muslims, Christianity, and Chri=tians. Recently, you have tweeted links to articles questioning whether th= ttmetoo movement has gone too far. We also noticed your rec=nt tweet about growing diversity in the skeptic movement. Our own reportin= on that issue presents a complex picture. Several female skeptics, after sharing personal accounts=of misogyny and harassment <https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyn=-bring-down-the-atheist-movement> by men in the community, have been subjected to Gamergate-=tyle online attacks, including rape and death threats <http://skepch=ck.org/page-o-hate/> =/a>. In recent years, f=mous freethinkers have been criticized for their Islamophobia=/a>, for <https:/=www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/03/sam-harris-muslim-animus> cheering <https://=ww.facebook.com/Michael.Brant.Shermer/posts/10154093771021386> the alt-right media personality Milo Yiannopoulos, and for lampooning feminism and ge=der theory chttps://www.skepti=.com/reading_room/conceptual-penis-social-contruct-sokal-style-hoax-on-gerper-studies/> . 5 EFTA_R1_01668086 EFTA02527441  Do you had any comments on the view that parts of the skeptic/a=heist movement appear to be sliding into <https://www.salon.com/2017/0429/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-dark-ages- how-new-atheism-slid-into-the-=It-righth the alt-right? Again, if you wish to comment on or clarify any of these po=nts, please get in touch with us as soon as possible. If I do not respond =mmediately it is because I am on another call or teaching, so please leave=the best phone number to reach you. Thanks, Peter Aldhous el:cY <tel:° Peter Aldhous, PhD Science reporter I =uzzFeed News tel: <tel: cell: <tel: <mailto chttps://twitter.com www.peteraldhous.com <http://www.peteraldhous.com/> Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor ./span> School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.=. Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: <=a> I Assistant (Jessica): <tek% Origins Office (Cynthia): <mailto origi=s.asu.edu <https://urldefense.proo=point.com/v2/url?u=http- 3A origins.asu.edu_&d=DQMFAg&c=AGbY=fJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOlQiaqWcFOihHCOI.ZCntZ=R8Xtq5BHKNVRSTo&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9ISUp33Th7MWHYf6uw7yU BPZc&s=3DGc-m4FUPqBmB-H8c30HdYhSQN_hZ8rHMdpPJHH3C680&e=> I twitter.comilkraussl<=> I krau=s.faculty.asu.edu <https://urldefense.proofpoin=.com/v2/urI?u=http- 3A_krauss.facuIty.asu.edu_&d=DQMFAg&c=AG=YxfJbXK67KfXyGqyv2Ejiz41FqQuZFk4A- 1IxfAU&r=DB9LvLOIQiaqWcFOihHCOLZCn=ZCR8XtqSBHKNVRSTo&m=ciP97mEbO4349G8_Nf9ISUp33Th7MWHYf6uw7yU BP2c&==f7W9C_XvpIClaElpZ3o8vIhOdM_e0hUbMIVPaUviEt8&e=> -Origins Project 10 Year Celebration- Be a part of something 10 years in the making! 6 EFTA_R1_01668087 EFTA02527442  April 5.9th 2018 40=93 Visit for more info chttps://www.originslOyear.comi> <image002.png> Peter Aldhous Science reporter I BuzzFeed News tel: <tel: cell: <tel: > <mailto > <https://twitter.com/ PGP Fingerprint: Send secure tips <https://contact.buzzfeed.c=m/> <=div> please note The in=ormation contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorn=y-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended=only for the use of the addressee. 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