Why Texas A&M archaeologist Filipe Castro was fired: Documents from the Texas Public Information Act
Last January, Texas A&M University fired marine archaeologist Filipe Castro , after receiving numerous complaints about his conduct. The complain…
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Paleontology: An alleged sexual harasser is passed out of a famous dinosaur lab. Have institutions failed yet again? [Updated Sept 21 2021: A pattern of sexual harassment in the U Saskatchewan Geological Sciences department?]
Aaron van der Reest This past May, a group of paleontologists in Canada, familiar with my reporting on #MeToo issues in the sciences , asked me to lo…
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The Kurin v. Balter lawsuit is over, with a settlement between the parties.
Thirteen months after University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) archaeologist Danielle Kurin sued me in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…
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As the $18 million Kurin v. Balter defamation lawsuit enters its second year, the battle intensifies between archaeologist Danielle Kurin and the reporter who exposed her misconduct. As the plaintiff threatens to file yet another lawsuit, the defendant asks the Court to sanction misconduct by Kurin and her attorney and dismiss the case.
Wikimedia Commons/ Perhelion As University of California, Santa Barbara archaeologist Danielle Kurin's defamation suit against me enters its s…
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Attorney for paleontology student accused of sexual misconduct in Canada threatens reporter with litigation
Aaron van der Reest/CBC Last month, a group of colleagues previously associated with the University of Alberta (UA) in Canada began contacting me wit…
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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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