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![An accused sexual harasser has committed suicide. Who is to blame? [Updated June 2019]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh35lrRg_Jzhz-zkEV9wq74bS1_uKsoX9-mHXvj88OwT6iUdiqnFVN5uXAzwhGn-O9455hyphenhyphenTkeFJt30IpkGEGHUcrylSErNGndu6tEP0bAKEiBQaGiN9mI_nim8tU2WtUcgkWG2xPb7cjhM/w680/rod_scott.jpg)
An accused sexual harasser has committed suicide. Who is to blame? [Updated June 2019]
Earlier this month, Rod Scott, a talented plant geneticist at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom, took his own life. He leaves behind tw…
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BuzzFeed's win in Steele dossier defamation case: A victory for freedom of the press and, I hope, a rebuke to gatekeeping in journalism
Ben Smith BuzzFeed has won the defamation lawsuit filed against it by Aleksej Gubarev, owner of Luxembourg-based XBT Holding SA and Florida-bas…
Read more![A #STEMToo Rogue's Gallery of sexual harassers, predators, and bullies in the sciences [Updated November 2024]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTCIZzJ0oipnC_eGr0YDiuT5HV8xzwtYCDjl59GhAKQ-Eb1C7lUAtlfocbHht7bCr7iqGJBB9X-JP9EpJEl5UyHP3EfK5z7W8sYXJ935EcsF4-ip8icBt5ZGKhTKX-k7ig7eRHu1xjL_am/w680/MeToo.webp)
A #STEMToo Rogue's Gallery of sexual harassers, predators, and bullies in the sciences [Updated November 2024]
Since fall 2015, in collaboration with victims and survivors who have served as primary sources for my stories, I have had the privilege of public…
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Letter to an apparently unreformed harasser on rejoining the scientific community
A researcher found guilty by CalTech of "unambiguous gender-based harassment" is threatening to take legal action against me for making…
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After more than 20 years in the hands of one researcher, the nearly complete "Little Foot" hominin skeleton from South Africa will finally be open to other scientists at the end of November
Ron Clarke and skull of "Little Foot"/Wits - Wikimedia Commons In 1994, Ron Clarke, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Wit…
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University of Bath acknowledges ongoing misconduct investigations in its Department of Biology & Biochemistry
University of Bath In recent weeks I have reported on allegations of bullying and sexual harassment in the University of Bath's Department…
Read more![University of Bath's mounting problems: Add sexual harassment to bullying [Updated June 2019]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz_pdCmPgfyJ6l8bn54EsLE-b1TnaKMeI1-SvI0uPw05vdL4IpZaHzCCNRJziElm3N4AhuzvW77EoPcypS8CRNsBZqKIT4TxwKxRT6_AEua0hZYxTfAgISefCPnL3k5Qo-E0FUNbyE0kKx/w680/rod_scott.jpg)
University of Bath's mounting problems: Add sexual harassment to bullying [Updated June 2019]
Rod Scott: Accused of sexual harassment Something stinks in Bath, and its not coming from the Roman spas that gave this city in Somerset, Englan…
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#MeToo investigation of famed paleoanthropologist David Lordkipanidze sees light of day at long last
David Lordkipanidze/Wikimedia Commons Introduction It probably does not happen often that a six-month long journalistic investigation of alle…
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My book about Neolithic Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the origins of civilization, the paperback edition. For more information about it, please visit MY WEB SITE
- Michael Balter
- I have been a working journalist for more than 40 years, beginning in Los Angeles as an investigative reporter and then in Paris as a travel, food, and science writer. For more than 20 years I have covered anthropology and archaeology writer for Science, Audubon, Scientific American, SAPIENS, and other publications. I have also covered sexual misconduct for The Verge, Scientific American, and others; I write about mental health, especially schizophrenia; and I engage in occasional media criticism. I returned to the USA in October 2017 after 30 years in Paris, and now live in the New York City area, where I currently teach journalism at City College of New York (I previously taught journalism at Boston University and New York University.) For more about me and what I do, copies of my articles, information about my book, and other goodies, please visit MY WEB SITE
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