After Fourth Accuser, BuzzFeed Reveals Findings Of Years-Long Investigation Of Neil DeGrasse Tyson Claims
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Tyson may be toast.
Via USA Today:
Less than a week after Fox, NatGeo and the producers of “Cosmos” announced they were investigating three women’s accounts of sexual misconduct against host Neil deGrasse Tyson, a fourth accuser has come forward.
In a Buzzfeed News story published Wednesday, an unnamed woman says the celebrity astrophysicist drunkenly propositioned her at a 2010 staff holiday party at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he serves as director of the Hayden Planetarium.
In 2014, she reported the incident to her employer as justification for refusing to collaborate with him on a proposed project. She later shared that email with Buzzfeed, which says it has been tracking the Tyson story for more than three years.
She joins three other accusers, whose allegations span 30 years. First came Tchiya Amet, who claims he drugged and raped her while they were grad students in the astrophysics program at the University of Texas in the 1980s. She went public with her story in 2014.
Last weekend, two more women followed: Ashley Watson, his former assistant on Cosmos, who says he made advances one night at his apartment after work, and Dr. Katelyn N. Allers, a Bucknell University professor who says she was “felt up” by Tyson at an American Astronomical Society convention in 2009.
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Dammit! Another of my heroes takes a great fall
Never would have expected it from him.
Making light of this (my bad) If Howard Wolowitz from BBT was real, he would be in a shitload of trouble.
Totally bummed. Well, at least there is Brian Greene.
He has been found guilty already?
An excerpt from where Tyson weighs in:
I think I will wait to see how this plays out before I deem him guilty.
I mean I will wait for an investigation, but I just don't get how people like him even get themselves in these situations. That is what puzzles me.
I can see how it happens. No matter how big the brain, we men -when in the right frame of mind- will do our thinking with another body part other than the brain.
Some men can resist this better than others.
That doesn't matter anymore.
Who ever knew such nefarious things happened at astrophysicist conventions?
Shit, go read about when they demoted Pluto... drunken fights and all.
How can someone so smart be so stupid?
Women should be on heightened alert around all men that wear a mustache without a beard. It's just creepy and an indicator they might be creeps.
This is all a misunderstanding.
He asked if she's seen milky whey up close.
Then he said it was the perfect time to be at the telescope cuz' "it's not every day I get the opportunity to see your....ahem Uranus.
Setting aside that I think he's married . . .
Three out of four sound like something we maybe shouldn't even be upset about even if they are true. Sometimes the whole MeToo thing goes too far.
Look, I promote being a gentleman, respecting women, etc., but what is so wrong with this? It's a holiday party. We're drinking. People do hook up at these things, ya know. All he did was proposition her. That's literally "seeking consent." He didn't drag her into a closet and jump her bones. Why is this incident, even if true, worthy of our attention or judgment?
I don't what know "advances" means (another proposition maybe?), but if you're trying to keep it professional, what are you doing in his apartment? Just wondering. Not saying she deserves to be attacked or anything, but I'm thinking a guy could be excused for thinking a girl might be interested in him if she's hanging out in his apartment.
Again, what does this even mean? Are we supposed to infer that he was squeezing her boobs in front of the whole room? Seems unlikely. You'd think you'd hear about a thing like that in the news or something. On the other hand, if they were alone in his hotel room, he may have had good reason to think she was interested in something physical. Needs more details . . . and, of course, cowbell.
Obviously this is different. If true, throw the book at him. He's slime.
God damnit Dr. Tyson. I seriously don't get what is so hard about this shit. If you have something to lose let them make the first move.
Thinking with your other 'head of state' - isn't logical. —A quote from Dr. Tremendous Spock
Could it be a 'curse' of celebrity - an inability to decipher all the messages coming from one's 'fanboys' and 'fan-girls' —some of us can be such teases anyway. 'Oozing' and 'perfuming' and "inappropriate" with our voluptuous attractiveness.
I do not know if this happened, but much does and can happen behind close doors! Now if we can just get a witness statement from 'Talking Walls, Inc' We can get to the bottom of these kinds of matters!