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From: Lawrence Krauss Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 11:35 PM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Fwd: A friendly suggestion FYI..=from Richard.. Begin forwarded =essage: From: =/b>Lawrence Krauss Subject: =/b>Re: A friendly =uggestion Date: =/b>February 27, 2018 at 4:10:35 PM =ST To: =/b>Richard Dawkins Richard.. am at the airport so I have to be a little quick. =nbsp; Thanks for the support and advice.. I appreciate both more than I =an say.. It is very =ard to answer your question because if you had asked me before the =uzzfeed allegations I would have not thought any of them would be made, =ecause aside from the consensual kissing with the crazy woman in 2006, =one of this has really happened.. Had you asked me if anyone was =oing to claim I grabbed someone else's breast during a selfie session, = would have laughed and said of course not. We are indeed trying to =anage this to stop other false claims from being made.. .....=This is one of the reasons I am laying low.. because what happens =ometimes in these things is 5 new women who want their names in the =ews and who I may never have met could come out and say anything if =hey feel I am not being kicked enough. Yet many people of goodwill want to =ear something. My hope is that I can write something to primarily =ttack the buzzfeed writers and not the people who made claims.. =nbsp;(and I have no intention to sue anyone at this point.. if I did it =ould be buzzfeed not melody..).. but at the same time show great =ontrition for 'not understanding in certain cases that the environment = created did not make people feel sufficiently comfortable to respond =o any remarks I made'... or something to that effect, =ven though as you know, I actually encourage quite the opposite.. =nbsp;Will send you the statement as it develops, and you can use it =onfidentially by March 3.. cause not sure when and if I will release it =ublicly. Thanks very much my friend. hopefully this too shall =ass.. but we will see. also please use this email for correspondence on this issue.. =ot my uni email. :) EFTA_R1_01657406 EFTA02520556 <mailto Lawrence On Feb 27. 2018. at 3:00 PM, =ichard Dawkins wrote: If =ou are confident the Buzzfeed accusations are the only ones and that =ou can refute them, ignore what I have to say below. However if, in =our heart of hearts, you know that there are other potential accusers =ut there and that they would come forward in the event that, for =xample, you sued Melody and won, the following could be relevant. In that event, I think the best hope might be =hat organisations which are disposed to boycott or otherwise penalise =ou might think along these lines. While we strongly disapprove etc etc =tc, blah blah blah, we feel that Lawrence has already been =unished enough. After going through what he's going through =ow, does anyone seriously think he'll ever offend in the same =ay again? If there's one man in the world who will never again =o what Lawrence is accused of, it's Lawrence. Therefore, the =rgument that women in this conference or that conference need to =e "protected" fails. So wny not give him anoher =hance? Punishment in the interests of reform is defensible. Punishment =or revenge or vindictive motives should not be indulged by rationalist =cientific sceptical organisations. However my suggestion can only work if you fall on your sword =nd show contrition. While the Buzzfeed accusations in particular may be =rong and even libellous, if there are other potential accusers out =here whom Buzzfeed didn't quote ... well you know what l'= saying. I have your best interests at =eart, as you know. Richard Lawrence M. =rauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor School of Earth & Space Exploration and Physics =epartment Arizona State University, P.O. Box =71404, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404 Research Office: Assistant (Jessica): Origins Office (Cynthia) origins.asu.edu I twitter.com/Ikraussl I krauss.faculty.asu.edu -Origins Project 10 Year =elebration- Be a part of something 10 years in the making! April 5-9th 2018 — Visit =or more info Lawrence M. =rauss Director, The Origins Project at ASU Co-Director, Cosmology Initiative Foundation Professor 2 EFTA_R1_01657407 EFTA02520557 School of Earth & Space Exploration and Ph sics =epartment Arizona State University, P.O. Box =71404, 85287-1404 Research Office: Assistant (Jessica): rigins Office (Cynthia): cmailto origins.asu.edu I twitter.comilkraussl I krauss.faculty.asu.edu -Origins Project =0 Year Celebration- Be a part of =omething 10 years in the making! April 5-9th 2018 — Visit for more info <https://www.originsl0year.com/> 3 EFTA_R1_01657408 EFTA02520558