<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>Lawrence Krauss &lt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Tuesday, December 12, 2017 6:57 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>Jeffrey E.</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Request for Professor Chomsky re: sexual harassment story</td></tr></table>

Note =hat they have now reduced 6 to 4..

On Dec =1, 2017, at 11:55 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's see if they =ublish

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 7:32 AM <a> =rote:

Thanks Noam. They are really =limeballs.. They dredged up false allegations from the internet =nd distorted others.. It is very depressing.. I appreciate the note. =nbsp;

On Dec 11, 2017, at 10:52 PM, =oam Chomsky <
<mailto » > wrote:

My wife Valeria forwarded =our message to me.

In general, when accusations and =negations are made, they should, if credible, be investigated. =hose who know nothing about them (my situation in the present case) =ave nothing to say, and cannot speculate seriously about the =onsequences of what they do not know.

Independently, Valeria and I have known =awrence very well for years, and what you describe is not at all =onsistent with what we know about his life and =haracter.

Noam Chomsky

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From: Virginia Hughes <
Date:=Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:32 PM
Subject: Request for =rofessor Chomsky re: sexual harassment story
To:

Dear Professor Chomsky,

I'm on the science desk at BuzzFeed News, where we have =eported on several big investigations about =/span>sexual harassment in the sciences.

For the last several months, I, along with two other =eporters on my desk, have been investigating at least four accounts of =exual misconduct involving Lawrence Krauss stretching back a decade. =ur story is corroborated by emails, university documents, official =omplaints, testimony from victims and witnesses, and interviews with =ore than two dozen of Krauss's current and former academic =olleagues, students, and peers in the skeptics =ovement.

We are now nearing our publication date. I am =eaching out to you now in the hopes that you may consider commenting on =hat allegations like this mean for your field, particularly since you =ave done events with Krauss and occupy a similar place in the public =phere.

## Are you interested in chatting?

We're planning to publish our story on Tuesday =orning, Eastern US Time. If you'd like to talk, please let us =now as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Ginny Hughes

Virginia Hughes I Science Editor
BuzzFeed =ews

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Co-Director, Cosmology =nitiative
Foundation Professor
School of Earth & Space =xploration and Physics Department
Arizona State =iversity,
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