ICYMI: The settlement in the $18 million defamation suit Danielle Kurin filed against me for my truthful reporting on her misconduct is now null and void, but the lawsuit itself has been dismissed with prejudice. Kurin now has bigger problems. michael-balter.blogspot.com/2021/10/metoo-…
Will the Santa Barbara County Sheriff charge Kurin with violating the CA Health and Safety Code for failing to report her finding of human remains for 2 months? michael-balter.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-st…
By violating the agreement we had come to, in which I made a major concession to her in exchange for publication of a document that showed my reporting was right, Kurin has badly damaged her own interests, something she does habitually. This story is far from over.
I will be covering it closely, of course, and I believe eventually other reporters will too. Unfortunately, there are indications that the @ucsantabarbara administration has prohibited the student paper, @dailynexus, from covering it as well.
By giving Kurin tenure and enabling her at every turn, @ucsantabarbara has exposed itself to potential legal liability from the students she has damaged. To my knowledge, there is at least one student who is currently seriously considering filing suit.
On the Jack Cantin case, I have invited Kurin or her attorney to respond to my reporting at the length they wish, with no editing from me. So far no response.
Kurin’s family, notably her father, @smithsonian official Richard Kurin, may have thought they were helping her by paying for lawyers and suing people. But that is not the kind of help she needs, according to many who know her, including from way back in grad school.
Indeed, the number of people who enabled Kurin in her documented misconduct forms a large list. The @ucsantabarbara administrators who had the chance to fire her and didn’t, and now have given her tenure (Chancellor Henry Yang, exec VC David Marshall, et al…
The attorney who served as hired gun and attack dog for 13 months in Kurin v. Balter; the #MeToo advocate who seriously considered testifying for her in the lawsuit, @KateClancy; the @IFRArchaeology and its leaders, @wzzw and Ran Boytner, who failed to inform UCSB…
That her husband had sexually assaulted a student at their field school in Peru and that she had been kicked out of the organization; the board of @ScienceWriters, which allowed itself to be bamboozled by Clancy and a clique in #anthropology into filing ethics charges…
Against the reporter who exposed Kurin, and all right in the middle of the lawsuit, which Kurin and her attorney used to try to discredit the journalist in front of the judge; and others who will be discussed in an upcoming post summarizing all these events.
For those who want to catch up on all events related to my reporting on Danielle Kurin, this post has the main stories: michael-balter.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-guid…
The culture of corruption at USCB does not begin nor end with Danielle Kurin. There is a long history of shielding abusers while throwing victims under the bus. I will soon write about how UCSB officials, starting with Chancellor Yang, abetted that toxic and shameful culture.
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