<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Lawrence Krauss</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:44 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: CLARIFICATION: response to your email</td></tr></table>

Trying that now. But the letter, which is r=ugh as I read it and has to be fine tuned, is quite collegial so if I can =80 t reach him I would like to send a touched up version of it this morni=g.

Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, The Origins Project at ASU
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School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics Depa=tment Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404, <x-apple-data-

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On Feb 1=, 2018, at 6:37 AM, jeffrey E. «mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com» wrote:

Did you call him

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM Lawrence Krauss > wrote:

=blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 .8ex;border-left:lpx=#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> So should I send this? =Please let me know ASAP.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Director, The Origins Project at ASU
Foundation Professor

School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics=Department
Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871404. <==>Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

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On Feb 13, 2018, at 9:27 PM, Lawrence Krauss <blackened out> wrote:

JEE: =ERE IS MY PROPOSED EMAIL.. GOING to NEIL TUROK. Comments welcome

Dear Neil and Michael:

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Following that Buzzfeed searched for other defamator= examples, and through someone at Perimeter received the following claim.&n=sp;

—At the P=rimeter Institute's "</=pan>Quantum to Cosmos" Festival in October 2009, a woman made a f=rmal complaint of sexual harassment against you. The institute immediately r=moved you from the premises and banned you from ever coming back.

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After I disputed this claim, they came back with the f=llowing claim, which they said was on the record by someone from Perimeter:=/div>

* During the event, a s=xual harassment complaint was filed against you.
* You were immediately removed from t=e premises and banned from ever coming back.
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* =div style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" >=span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif">From: "Neil Turok=

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Neue",Hel=etica,sans-serif">Subject: Holden=XXX

Da=e: March 31, 2011at 9:30:26 AM MST
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Dear Larry, I h=pe you're doing very well. It was nice to have you at PI for the Q2C Festiv=1 and I do hope you'll be able to visit again soon. I'm writing in regar= to Holden XXX, who I have been working with recently ... =/blockquote> With my best wishes, Nei=

Subsequent to that, Bu=zfeed came back with the following:

T=ank you for sending the email from Neil Turok. We have raised this with the=Perimeter Institute, which has clarified its position, as follows:</=iv>

During the=event, a sexual harassment complaint was filed with the

administration agai=st you.

In 2012, as part of a formal review of i=s internal policies, the institute made a decision that you would not be in=ited to return.

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As you can see, the original claim by Buzz=eed, which they claimed was verified 'on the record' by Per=meter, was false. I believe this final claim is false, and I would li=e confirmation from you.. It may be a fine point, but I believe it is impor=ant. Originally Michael informed me immediately after the event that t=ere was a complaint of inappropriate communication with one of the staff, s=mething I indicated then and reiterate now, I am not aware of at all, but b= that as it may, he informed me at the time by email that with no further c=mmunication with that person, the matter was closed. Several years I=ter I was invited to give another public lecture

but your outreach coordina=or later rescinded the invitation, although I was reimbursed for that. = As you are aware, I subsequently discussed this with Neil in Vancouver in t=at year, and inquired about exactly what it was all about, and informed him=that either a formal procedure to resolve any issue in which I could partic=pate and respond might be appropriate, or the matter should be dropped. Nei= said he would explore the matter, and neither he, nor anyone else, ever co=tacted me following that. I have never been informed of anything lik= Buzzfeed has claimed. Indeed I have been invited back to Perimeter for sci=ntific meetings by various colleagues in the intervening years. =

I am very concerned by this claim below, for obvi=us reasons. First, the original Perimeter source provided false and d=famatory information to Buzzfeed, changing a story only after I provided co=nter-evidence. Second, as you are aware Perimeter has never contacted=me about any such proviso in the interim. The only document I ever re=eived was in 2009 from michael assuring me the matter was closed, whatever i= was. I would find it highly irregular if any formal procedure took p=ace with such an outcome without my knowledge or without any due process, a=d without subsequently informing me.

I expe=t the correct statement, if there is one, is that there was a complaint fro= someone at Perimeter about inappropriate communication at the final party o= while being driven back to the hotel after it (for all I know it may have b=en about religious issues), and that 3 years later a decision was made by t=e outreach coordinator, perhaps in collaboration with others, not to invite=me back at that time for a public lecture.

=lease confirm my understanding of this issue for me if you will. As y=u can imagine, making this public is embarrassing enough for me, especially=since I personally maintain whatever I may have said wasn't inappro=riate, and there was certainly no sexual harassment by any definition of th=t word.. indeed there was nothing sexual in any discussion I know of. =Nevertheless, if something is to be reported, indicating that it was a comm=nication issue, and there was no formal ban on my returning to Perimeter (e=pecially as nothing along these lines was ever communicated to me and I hav= received invites since that time) is less damning than suggesting otherwis=. As Buzzfeed has tried, at every turn, to misrepresent facts in the w=rst possible light, it is important for me to not allow them to continue to=do this. For example, they contacted my university and asked if there=any claims fo sexual harassment against me at the University, and though th= University said there were not, but that there was an external allegation a=out a remote event that had been discredited (the one I mentioned above), B=zzfeed announced they would report that they contacted the University with a=request for information about sexual harassment allegations and were not gi=en any information in return..

Last, it coul= be of course that Buzzfeed has reiinterpeted statements from Perimeter sta=f, but if a member of your staff made the original false allegation to Buzz=eed (violating confidentiality in the process I expect) I would like you to=at least be aware of this and act accordingly.

Thanks very much for your prompt and immediate attention to this

request.=/div>

Lawrence Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss Director, The Origins Project at=ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space=Exploration and Physics Department Arizona State University, P.O. B=x 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404

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Date: February 13, 201= at 2:54:26 PM PST

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Dr. Krauss:

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Thank you for sending the email from Neil T=rok. We have raised this with the Perimeter Institute, which has clarified i=s position, as follows:

In 2012, as part of a formal review of its internal policies, the=institute made a decision that you would not be invited to return.4=iv>

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On 2/12/18 8:20 AM,=Lawrence Krauss wrote:

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Although I wasn't going to bother and shouldn't need to, just one example among many: in this case 17 months after Q2C, email from the Director of the Perimeter Institute. I don't know how it could be much clearer.. (= have redacted out the rest of the body of the letter because it refers to a hiring issue that is irrelevant to you).. </=iv>

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## Dear Larry,

I hope you're doing very well. It was nice to have you at PI for the Q2C Festival and I do hope you'll be able to visit again soon. I'm writing in regard to Holden XXX, who I have been working with recently ...

With my best wishes,

Neil

On Feb 9, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Lawrence Krauss

wrote:

Oh yes, definitely and demonstrably.. I dispute everything except the first bullet point, with substantial evidentiary email communication... so you had better a=ert whoever went on the record at the perimeter institute about the consequences of making false allegations.

## LMK

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On Feb 9, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Peter Aldhous

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To clarify,=we plan to publish each of the following statements, which have all been co=firmed on the record by the Perimeter Institute:

In October of 2009, y=u went to Waterloo, Ontario, to be a guest speaker at the Quantum to Cosmos=Festival <http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/video-library/collection=quantum-cosmos-festival-2009?page=2> at t=e Perimeter Institute. In October of 2009, y=u went to Waterloo, Ontario, to be a guest

- y=u. During the event, a sexual harassment complaint was filed against

You were immediately removed from the premises and banned from

ever=coming back.

The institute would not provide more details to respect the

complai=ant's privacy.

Do you d=spute any of these statements?

If you =80 d like to further clarify your position on these statements, please co=tact me before 12 noon Pacific on Saturday, Feb 10.

## Peter A=dhous

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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Lawrence Krauss



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Peter:

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. I 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 seem= 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 harassment, 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

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ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wra=">Dr. Krauss:

Since our earlier correspondenc=, further incidents have come to our attention. I've outlined the d=tails below and would very much like to include your response to each in ou= story.

## Peter Aldhous (cont.)

—At the Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Cosmos" Festival in October 2009, a w=man made a formal complaint of sexual harassment against you. The institute=immediately removed you from the premises and banned you from ever coming b=ck.

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 Cosm=s" 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 banned from returning to Perimeter. I have maintained a collegial relationship with various colleagues there who have invited me to return on several occasions. ap>

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