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![Peruvian archaeologist and former culture minister Castillo, ejected from U.S. National Academy of Sciences for sexual harassment, sues Academy and its president for millions of dollars [Updated June 4, 2023: Judge grants defendants's motion for dismissal]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmtwXVx8vOalgP6ux_2XigEzjxtK6E8gpE8-VL6kzQfyEEDgtTwF_G0TFyc93rTrqXyVE0547-LWCg1ZNICcUH64J7EHMKFzRUJHV_g-YSYrElxY3ioepvVyU6WGAsH1CzBsTp9aTlnpIlePuHv9SjWual7nkRxXMyoVMVn5GiqMxqz_VP9X7BZsYOtQ/w680/Castillo%20v.%20NAS%20screenshot%20header.png)
Peruvian archaeologist and former culture minister Castillo, ejected from U.S. National Academy of Sciences for sexual harassment, sues Academy and its president for millions of dollars [Updated June 4, 2023: Judge grants defendants's motion for dismissal]
On October 12, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters, an archaeologist at Peru's Pontifical Catholic University (PUCP) in Lima, Peru, sued the National Aca…
Read more![Bones claimed by disgraced UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Danielle Kurin to be those of a missing teenager turn out to be not human, but animal, most likely from a cow. Was a fraud perpetrated on a grieving mother and a traumatized community? [Updated Sept 22, 2022: A real forensic anthropologist weighs in]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaX4qipDdynljEG7Jxa3R3MWbt6Ls_DuFcQ9oiSr3s93DGSJoNNBkM3-Wu11kHRjY8g9PKDKxZioeo6Ta_vqVih5WM2uoWz-na3ZdnhpKsyXS9Y5M1qdQg3SUCs_Q9Cwyf-xV-BUVW7LgksrX6mo2Jy9sV0f3NC3T7QX1-lYh6qRP-QOBKvy7dJLBwOw/w680/Montecito%20mudslide.jpeg)
Bones claimed by disgraced UC Santa Barbara anthropologist Danielle Kurin to be those of a missing teenager turn out to be not human, but animal, most likely from a cow. Was a fraud perpetrated on a grieving mother and a traumatized community? [Updated Sept 22, 2022: A real forensic anthropologist weighs in]
The 2018 Montecito debris flow killed more than 20 people and destroyed many homes. On July 22 of last year, former University of California, Santa…
Read more![Why did a leading #MeToo reporter subpoena a leading #MeToo advocate? [Updated June 22]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhipUcg1yPyM_Zawu0gtqgFBuWKAL8gLtZugUYHbX7xf1eqZP324uAfSlgeTfrucDBq980MYCIWMIWENLu0t6O0b7kNZYmXRnXl0X2R0gCX7yAJR1g1ppxe0Seiq8Euhj3TAVtPGAMwugh2zzp0jssiPwvUsnYeuExGqndt5ODb3HBBBnU-NIGfELWoQQ/w680/Clancy%20Tweet%20Marcela%20and%20subpoena.jpg)
Why did a leading #MeToo reporter subpoena a leading #MeToo advocate? [Updated June 22]
The above Tweet is from Kate Clancy, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a leading #MeToo researcher and advocate.…
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- 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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