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Texas A&M archaeology prof fired due to misconduct. He was listed as a potential witness for Danielle Kurin in her Initial Disclosures in her lawsuit against a #MeToo reporter

Texas A&M archaeology prof fired due to misconduct. He was listed as a potential witness for Danielle Kurin in her Initial Disclosures in her lawsuit against a #MeToo reporter

Michael Balter1/14/2021 10:32:00 AM

The January 12, 2021 issue of the The Eagle , a campus newspaper of Texas A&M University (TAMU), has the news: Filipe Castro, an archaeology professor at TAMU, has been fired for misconduct . A second professor in the TAMU anthropology department, Michael Alvard, received a written reprimand. I reported on the abuses of both of these men, an…

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Texas A&M archaeology prof fired due to misconduct. He was listed as a potential witness for Danielle Kurin in her Initial Disclosures in her lawsuit against a #MeToo reporter

Texas A&M archaeology prof fired due to misconduct. He was listed as a potential witness for Danielle Kurin in her Initial Disclosures in her lawsuit against a #MeToo reporter

Michael Balter 1/14/2021 10:32:00 AM

The January 12, 2021 issue of the The Eagle , a campus newspaper of Texas A&M University (TAMU), has the news: Filipe Castro, an archaeology pr…

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Over the sea to Skye

Over the sea to Skye

Michael Balter 1/11/2021 11:20:00 AM

The Skye Bridge/ By HaSt - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php This article is adapted from a piece that originally app…

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Judge in #MeToo defamation case denies request for early summary judgment motion. The fight goes on.

Judge in #MeToo defamation case denies request for early summary judgment motion. The fight goes on.

Michael Balter 1/08/2021 04:18:00 PM

On January 5, my attorneys in the Kurin v. Balter defamation case sent a letter to the judge (Vincent Briccetti of the Southern District of New Yor…

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Attorneys for #MeToo reporter, citing New York's new anti-SLAPP law, ask federal judge to consider motion for summary judgment

Attorneys for #MeToo reporter, citing New York's new anti-SLAPP law, ask federal judge to consider motion for summary judgment

Michael Balter 1/05/2021 12:16:00 PM

(International Commission of Jurists) Last June, Danielle Kurin, an archaeologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sued me for defamat…

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The year a socialist almost became governor of California. Upton Sinclair's campaign changed the political face of the state

The year a socialist almost became governor of California. Upton Sinclair's campaign changed the political face of the state

Michael Balter 1/02/2021 10:31:00 AM

Upton Sinclair/National Portrait Gallery The following is adapted from a piece I wrote for the July 15, 1984 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News Ma…

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National Association of Science Writers rejects subpoena demands from archaeologist suing one of its members for defamation [Update Dec 22: Kurin's attorneys have withdrawn the subpoena]

National Association of Science Writers rejects subpoena demands from archaeologist suing one of its members for defamation [Update Dec 22: Kurin's attorneys have withdrawn the subpoena]

Michael Balter 12/21/2020 11:13:00 AM

As readers of this blog know, I am the defendant in a defamation suit filed against me by Danielle Kurin , an archaeologist at the University of Ca…

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More abusers at the University of Queensland?

More abusers at the University of Queensland?

Michael Balter 12/14/2020 11:38:00 AM

James E. M. Watson Over the past couple of years, my reporting into abuse by academics, especially scientists, has taken me "down under" a …

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