Let's see.
Documents described "a slew of reported incidents, including one in which Lawrence Krauss suggested that a job prospect engage in a threesome. In another, he told a female employee she should 'take one for the team' and date a donor." 1/
#Quillette
Documents described "a slew of reported incidents, including one in which Lawrence Krauss suggested that a job prospect engage in a threesome. In another, he told a female employee she should 'take one for the team' and date a donor." 1/
#Quillette
"The investigation also found that Lawrence Krauss had grabbed the breast of a woman posing with him for a selfie at a convention where he was an invited speaker." 2/
chronicle.com/article/3-Reve…
chronicle.com/article/3-Reve…
"Lawrence Krauss has explained some of his behavior as harmless joking, but the administration disagreed. The provost, Mark Searle, wrote in a July 31 letter to Krauss that his behavior was 'unprofessional, reflects a failure of leadership, and is extremely disappointing.'" 3/
"The professor’s behavior was found to have violated the university’s anti-harassment policy and its code of ethics." 4/
Generous people write generous threads. Even in response to Lawrence Krauss elaborating in #Quillette his personal (not very researched) view that natural science fields aren't systemically racist.
Here's one.
Here's one.
Meanwhile, I have a less generous mode.
"Krauss reportedly received $250,000 from one of Epstein’s foundations for his Origins Project. Then headed by Krauss, the project received these funds from Enhanced Education, one of Epstein’s foundations, between Dec 2001 and Apr 2017."
"Krauss reportedly received $250,000 from one of Epstein’s foundations for his Origins Project. Then headed by Krauss, the project received these funds from Enhanced Education, one of Epstein’s foundations, between Dec 2001 and Apr 2017."
"Krauss publicly defended Epstein’s character during this time period. Epstein was previously convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from underage girls. He served just 13 months in a controversial plea deal." 7/
phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-asu-pr…
phoenixnewtimes.com/news/ex-asu-pr…
"'Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women but they're not as young as the ones that were claimed,' said Krauss in a 2011 interview with the Daily Beast." 8/
"'As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people.'" 9/
"Krauss insisted that despite receiving criticism from colleagues about his alignment with the sex offender, 'I don't feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it.'" 10/
Interesting that #Quillette wants to make a theoretical physicist--who 1) has this kind of record of sexual harassment and professional misconduct & 2) downplays pedophilia and convictions of sexual assault of his donor--into their expert on how physics isn't systemically racist.
Is that how "free thought lives"? 12/
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